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The Davey Dialogues - An Exploratio...

John C. Madden

The Davey Dialogues - An Exploration of the Scientific Foundations of Human Culture

Linking Science and Science History with Culture – Essential Science for the Non-scientist. The Davey Dialogues is an easy-to-understand history and background to key discoveries which have altered our perception of our universe and of ourselves, couched as a dialogue between the writer and a mysterious extra-terrestrial being with an agenda that may surprise you. The dialogues provide background on the historical development of carefully selected scientific topics which are...

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John C. Madden

LoveDance: Awakening the Divine Dau...

Deborah Maragopoulos FNP

LoveDance: Awakening the Divine Daughter

LoveDance unveils Mary Magdalen as the Divine Daughter and essential partner to Yeshua the Divine Son in a love story as passionate as Gone with the Wind as intriguing as The Da Vinci Code as transformative as The Celestine Prophesy and as enlightening as The Secret. Mary Magdalen unveils HERstory…Join her Journey …Heal your Soul I am a healer. I am a woman. I am the voice of one forgotten. The time is ripe for the Divine Daughter to be...

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Deborah Maragopoulos FNP

No Need for Heroes

Sandy MacGregor

No Need for Heroes

THE FIRST TUNNEL RATS This is the thrilling, hilarious and inspiring true story of a ragtag band of Aussie Army Engineers who redefined the word heroes … and reinvented larrikin too. Among the first Australians to fight in Vietnam, they faced death every day defusing Viet Cong booby traps—then partied all night in a casino they'd built in secret. They led hundreds of American troops to safety, but fought US military...

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Sandy MacGregor

Finding Bill

Henrietta T. O'Neill

Finding Bill

As a child growing up on a farm in Eastern Ontario, Henrietta listened intently to dinner table stories about her parents' lives before and after WWII. She never tired of the accounts of the family legend, Bill O'Neill, a Canadian soldier who briefly stayed in her parents' tiny home in Holland during the war. Impressed by his kindness and evident bravery her parents gave him a copy of their wedding portrait as a souvenir. As she grew up, Henrietta did...

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Henrietta T. O'Neill

Hitler: Stalin's Stooge

James Ph.D. Edwards

Hitler: Stalin's Stooge

Hitler was the stooge Stalin used to start World War II. Stalin was the "eminence gris" behind the rise of Hitler and the Nazis to power. Stalin envisioned World War II as a replay of World War I, in which the Europeans would destroy each other and be ripe for conquest. Stalin forged the mightiest political control apparatus and largest military machine in the world. In the process tens of millions were executed or perished in the vast Gulag. Stalin planned to use this...

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James Ph.D. Edwards

A People's History of the United St...

Howard Boone's Zinn

A People's History of the United States: Teaching Edition

The Abridged Teaching Edition of A People's History of the United States has made Howard Zinn's original text available specifically for classroom use. With exercises and teaching materials to accompany each chapter, this edition spans American Beginnings, Reconstruction, the Civil War and through to the present, with new chapters on the Clinton Presidency, the 2000 elections, and the "War on Terrorism."

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Howard Boone's Zinn

An Unlikely Candidate: Reflections...

Arthur Sr. Lieber

An Unlikely Candidate: Reflections on My Run for Congress

In 2010, Arthur Lieber ran for Congress in Missouri's 2nd Congressional District when no other Democrat would. Operating on a budget considered minuscule by today's standards, and refusing donations, he ran as an unashamed progressive Democrat in a predominantly Republican district. In Unlikely Candidate, Lieber reveals the inside story of his unconventional campaign, shares the lessons he learned about contemporary electoral politics, and suggests ways to fix our broken...

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Arthur Sr. Lieber

City Out of Time

William Robison III

City Out of Time

In his debut novel, William Robison begins the story of a young time traveler and his retrieval team. Set in the midst of world history, this is a story of adventure, romance, and heroism that is part history lesson and part action movie, and all kinds of fun… Lanz Franco's life is going nowhere – and fast – until the death of his brother. All at once, Lanz Franco wanders into the desert, discovers a fantastic city out of time, learns that he is a time traveler, and...

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William Robison III

Marking Humanity: Stories, Poems, &...

Shlomit Editor Kriger

Marking Humanity: Stories, Poems, & Essays by Holocaust Survivors

Imagine sitting across from a member of the German Secret State Police and negotiating with him to allow for the release of Jewish youngsters and for the establishment of a Jewish school. What can a teenager do when forced to march past the gallows and see how two of his campmates were hung? These are just some of the very real experiences that afflicted the 46 featured Holocaust survivors, who remained resilient and went on to rebuild their lives in the United States, Canada, Israel, Australia,...

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Shlomit Editor Kriger

America Reflected: Language, Satire...

Peter C. Rollins

America Reflected: Language, Satire, Film, and the National Mind

America Reflected offers eclectic film criticism and considerations of distinctive American voices from the ante-bellum era to the present. "Rollins examines the roles of language, satire, and film in reflecting the American consciousness through such diverse sources as Orestes Brownson, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Will Rogers, and Hollywood. Readers of America Reflected are in for a delightful voyage as they travel through American history and culture with Peter Rollins as...

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Peter C. Rollins

Duke - Carolina Volume 2

Art MD Chansky

Duke - Carolina Volume 2

Famed sportswriter and Tobacco Road basketball historian Art Chansky is releasing a digital version of his award-winning book, Blue Blood, for the Apple iPad, iPhone and iTouch. Blue Blood details one of sport's greatest rivalries, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and details the emergence, growth and fierce competition that has existed between these two schools, which are located only eight miles apart on Tobacco Road. Blue Blood...

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Art MD Chansky

CVC Veri A Guide to the Epic of the...

Lee CDN Streiff

CVC Veri A Guide to the Epic of the Martian Empire

Introduction By Lee Streiff "In 1937 James Streiff and Bob Parks created 'the Epic of the Martian Empire'; in 1942 Paul Carter added his vision of the Cosmic Vortex to it, and the Universe was never the same again…" Lee Streiff Once we lived in the world of the Martian Empire, but that now seems like a long time ago – it all began in those last remaining years before World War II changed our...

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Lee CDN Streiff

Nia

Allan Inc. Wargon

Nia

This is the story of a man and woman in love, with all the doubt, hesitation, delusion, jealousy, desire, passion, ecstasy and pain of people thus enthralled. The man, Robert, is every joy, every fear, every terrible thought and high-minded aspiration, every conceit, every strength and weakness of mind and body that any man has ever felt and known but only reluctantly acknowledged in himself. Nia reflects the tenderness, hope, fear, suffering, attempted dignity and...

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Allan Inc. Wargon

As Green As Paradise

Adam OSB Lifshey

As Green As Paradise

As Green as Paradise is a lyrical weave of a governor's story, once a conquistador. It is a tale of loves lost and dreams unfulfilled, of characters condemned to forge ahead in a world at once old and new. The avocado carver was once a conquistador. This time, though, he aims to arrive in peace, as a governor, leading his relatives across the sea to a new world where they will found a settlement in a green valley. Yet his hopes for harmony with the indigenous people do...

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Adam OSB Lifshey

Latter-day Scripture

Robert M. Price

Latter-day Scripture

This book is a series of papers presented mainly at the Book of Mormon Round Table. It lays out a case for considering the Mormon scripture as the work of Joseph Smith in the nineteenth century, not an ancient document written by various Israelites in ancient America. But, author Robert M. Price argues, this is merely another case of "pseudepigraphy," the genre of fictive "as if" authorship common to the Bible as well. Price urges readers to a new appreciation...

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Robert M. Price

Hoodwinked - the spy who didn't die

Lowell Ph.D. Green

Hoodwinked - the spy who didn't die

The voice on the tape recordings is that of an old man we all believe is dead. His incredible story whips us along on a fascinating, engrossing speedboat ride so entirely believable that readers are left wondering what is real and what is not. In fact, many of the events here are true. Many of the people in the book are real. The narrator in the book describes a dramatic escape from the Minsk Ghetto during WWII, being chased by killers across North America, murder, betrayal and sun-drenched...

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Lowell Ph.D. Green

SNCC: The New Abolitionists

Howard Boone's Zinn

SNCC: The New Abolitionists

Howard Zinn tells the story of one of the most important political groups in American history. SNCC: The New Abolitionists influenced a generation of activists struggling for civil rights and seeking to learn from the successes and failures of those who built the fantastically influential Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It is considered an indispensable study of the organization, of the 1960s, and of the process of social change. Includes a new introduction by the author.

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Howard Boone's Zinn

Terror Has No Diary

Michael Melnick

Terror Has No Diary

Of the 7000 Jews living in the Baltic seaport of Libau (Liepaja), Latvia when the Germans invaded on June 21, 1941, only 200 remained alive when the city was liberated May 9,1945. Of these, maybe two dozen were hiding within Libau itself. This story is about 12 of them. Eleven adults were in the care of Robert and Johanna Sedols who hid them in a cellar behind a false wall constructed with the "holy bricks" of the demolished Choral Synagogue; the lone child was cared for by a...

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Michael Melnick

Rude Awakenings: An American Histor...

Carol Jr. Sicherman

Rude Awakenings: An American Historian's Encounter With Nazism, Communism and McCarthyism

A richly detailed portrait not only of a man struggling to lead an ethical life but of the disturbed times in which he lived. Drawing on family papers, wide-ranging interviews, FBI files, American and German newspapers, a wide array of published sources, and her own memories, the author traces Marks's German American heritage, his education both formal and informal, his marriage to a fellow Communist from a poor Russian family, his rocky start as an academic, his...

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Carol Jr. Sicherman

The Streetcar to Andromeda

Celeste Hammond Streiff

The Streetcar to Andromeda

Imagine you could enter a world teeming with strange and wonderful characters and beings simply by taking a walk down your street and catching–The Streetcar to Andromeda. The Streetcar to Andromeda is a Science Fiction fantasy adventure that deals with imagination and the dreamer. It begins in late 1938. Jesse, Parker, and Emma, are three intelligent and imaginative friends of high school age with high hopes for the future, not realizing that in...

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Celeste Hammond Streiff

Komatke Gold

Benjamin Vance

Komatke Gold

An adventure novel dealing with brutal murders, smuggling, archeological discovery, and a life's validation. An unsuspecting retired military officer attempts to retrace steps of early manhood by revisiting the venue of his first and only love. He quickly finds himself involved in a series of baffling situations which tax his situational awareness, personal relationships, combat skills, and lead to a reassessment of goals and friendships. He finds...

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Benjamin Vance

The Stubborn Season

Lauren B. Davis

The Stubborn Season

Where does one person end and the other begin? That's the question that haunts Irene, a girl growing up in Toronto during the Great Depression. Living with her father, a pharmacist who finds comfort in the bottle, and her mother, a woman teetering on the edge of her own depression, Irene's crumbling family situation mirrors the economic and social turmoil just beyond the front door of their respectable, working class neighborhood home. As she grows into a young woman, Irene finds...

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Lauren B. Davis

Sex and the Short Story

Dr James Cumes

Sex and the Short Story

A Sense Of Place Publishing is proud to include Dr James Cumes amongst its authors. The publication of his sweeping essay on the evolution of Sex and the Short Story represents the first of what we hope will be many further contributions from this esteemed writer. The book examines the evolution of the language, such as when specific words first appeared in English dictionaries, associated with sexual descriptions in novels and short stories; pans across obscenity trials and...

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Dr James Cumes

The American Consul: A History of t...

Charles Stuart Kennedy

The American Consul: A History of the United States Consular Service 1776â1924. Revised Second Edition

This book traces the significant history of the U.S. Consular Service, America's principal representation abroad through most its history. This new edition adds the period 1914 to 1924, after which the Consular Service was integrated with the Diplomatic Service to form the present-day Foreign Service of the United States. This volume thus adds the work of the Consular Service through the end of World War I, the Greek disaster in Turkey, and Germany in the early years of the Weimar...

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Charles Stuart Kennedy

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