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Mini: 60 Years
Giles Chapman - Motorbooks
Format: Hardcover
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Mini celebrates 60 amazing years of this iconic car, from its revolutionary introduction to the popularity of its new-generation models. The first two-door Mini, introduced in 1959 and built until 2000, revolutionized automotive design with its innovative front-wheel-drive layout that made... |
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The Schenley Experiment: A Social History of Pittsburgh's First Public High School
Jake Oresick - Penn State University Press
Format: Paperback
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The Schenley Experiment is the story of Pittsburgh's first public high school, a social incubator in a largely segregated city that was highly - even improbably - successful throughout its 156-year existence. Established in 1855 as Central High School and reorganized in 1916, Schenley... |
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Ellsworth Kelly: Austin
Carter E Foster - RADIUS BOOKS
Format: Hardcover
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The only building the artist designed, Austin is Kelly's most enduring legacyIn January 2015, the renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, the design concept for his most monumental work. A 2,715-square-foot stone building... |
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An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era
Beth Bailey - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August 1968, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous... |
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Talk of Champions: Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir
Kenny Smith - ?Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, humorous, behind-the-scenes memoir from Kenny "The Jet" Smith - superstar basketball commentator, host of top-rated Inside the NBA, and two-time NBA champion. Smith reveals memorable inside stories of his playing and broadcasting careers, focusing on the star players,... |
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Drone Strike!: UCAVs and Unmanned Aerial Warfare in the 21st Century
Bill Yenne - Specialty Press
Format: Print book
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The idea of the armed, combat-configured unmanned aerial vehicle entered the 21st Century in the same manner as the idea of military airplanes had entered the 20th Century. It was an untried and untested concept suddenly thrust into the spotlight in an unexpected global war. By 1999, few people... |
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The Book of Gutsy Women: Our Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your... |
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Troubled Water: A Journey Around the Black Sea (Armchair Traveller)
Jens Mühling - Haus Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A history of the countries bordering the Black Sea told through the stories of the people who live there. Fringing the Black Sea is a diverse array of countries, some centuries old and others emerging only after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Jens Mühling travels through this region,... |
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Cleopatra's Daughter: and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era
Duane W Roller - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Roman emperor Augustus gave his name to the age he dominated, from the latter half of the first century BC until the second decade of the following century. Yet he shared the age with several royal women who ruled parts of the Mediterranean world, in a symbiotic relationship with Rome.... |
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