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The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
Gregory Clark · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement... |
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Dinner with DiMaggio: Memories of An American Hero
Rock G Positano · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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The real Joe DiMaggio, remembered by the man who knew him best in the last decade of his life - candid and little-known stories about icons from Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, and his Yankees teammates on the field to Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and other great celebrities off the field.Dr.... |
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The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt
Daniel A Stolz · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover
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An observatory and a lighthouse form the nexus of this major new investigation of science, religion, and the state in late Ottoman Egypt. Astronomy, imperial bureaucrats, traditionally educated Muslim scholars, and reformist Islamic publications, such as The Lighthouse, are linked to examine... |
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The coming of the terror in the French Revolution
Timothy Tackett · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human... |
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life
Don Piper · Revell; 10 Anv edition
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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Immigration: Tough Questions, Direct Answers
Dale Hanson Bourke · IVP Books
Format: Print book
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How can we be sure terrorists arent entering our country? What does it mean to be a citizen? Do immigrants help or hurt the economy? Whats wrong with calling someone an illegal immigrant? In this Skeptics Guide Dale Hanson Bourke sheds light on key terms and concepts, historical events... |
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Play Better Guitar in 10 Minutes a Day
Phil Capone · Chartwell Books; Spi Pap/Co edition
Format: Print book
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How often shoul d I practice? And what should I work on? These are the two questions that guitar students will ask more often than anything else related to learning to play. This book provides the answers, with a wealth of practice exercises drawn together through the author's 25-year... |
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Paleo Monday to Friday: A Diet So Good You Can Take the Weekend Off
Daniel Green · Kyle Books
Pages: 159
Format: Print book
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Paleo: Monday to Friday provides you with the perfect diet. The book is full of delicious, nutritious recipes, using only the fruits, veg, meat, seafood and nuts that our Paleolithic, hunter-gatherer ancestors thrived on when our species evolved. Plus it's written by top chef Daniel... |
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Stronger, Faster, Smarter: A Guide to Your Most Powerful Body
Ryan Ferguson · Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguing Group (USA)
Pages: 161
Format: Print book
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After a decade behind bars for a murder he did not commit, Ryan Ferguson learned that physical strength and confidence are keys to survival - he now shares his strength secrets in Stronger, Faster, Smarter--the smartest, realest, and most doable fitness guide you'll ever read. How many... |
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Cnut the Great
Timothy Bolton · Yale University Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of the most misunderstood of the Anglo-Saxon... |
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