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A Decade of Disruption - America in...

Ксюша Ангел

A Decade of Disruption - America in the New Millennium (Unabridged)

Dubya. The 9/11 terrorist attacks. Enron and WorldCom. The Iraq War. Hurricane Katrina. The disruptive nature of the internet. An anxious aging population redefining retirement. The gay community demanding full civil rights. A society becoming ever more «brown.» The housing bubble and the Great Recession. The historic election of Barack Obama – and the angry Tea Party reaction. The United States experienced a turbulent first decade of the 21st century, tumultuous years of economic crises,...

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Ксюша Ангел

The War at Home

Helen Bradford

The War at Home

During the Anglo-Boer War, the conflict between the British and the Boers spilled over from the battlefield to the farmsteads of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. The internment of women and children in concentration camps was part of a total war waged by the British Empire not only against the republican forces, but also civilians. Perilous conditions and overcrowding in many camps led to thousands of deaths and untold suffering. The trauma this caused unleashed intense emotions among...

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Helen Bradford

Zionist Architecture and Town Plann...

Nathan Harpaz

Zionist Architecture and Town Planning

Established as a Jewish settlement in 1909 and dedicated a year later, Tel Aviv has grown over the last century to become Israel’s financial center and the country’s second largest city. This book examines a major period in the city’s establishment when Jewish architects moved from Europe, including Alexander Levy of Berlin, and attempted to establish a new style of Zionist urbanism in the years after World War I. The author explores the interplay of an ambitious architectural program and the...

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Nathan Harpaz

Eternamente Il Mio Duca

Dawn Brower

Eternamente Il Mio Duca

Un amore che solo una fiaba può disegnare. Un amore che solo una fiaba può disegnare. Lady Delilah Everly non ha avuto la vita meravigliosa che si potrebbe immaginare. Il Male non può neanche lontanamente descrivere sua madre e il modo in cui ella si è comportata con chi invece avrebbe dovuto amare. Ciò ha indurito il cuore di Delilah ed ella ha imparato presto che doveva dipendere da se stessa , iniziando ad acquisire le conoscenze necessarie per camminare sulle proprie gambe. Marrock Palmer,...

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Dawn Brower

SAMOS

Xisco Bonilla

SAMOS

Povijesni roman koji govori o iskustvima članova obitelji grčkih ribara tijekom Prvog punskog rata Almices Teópulos, mladi ribar, živi sa svojom obitelji na otoku Samosu, u grčkom arhipelagu Dodekanez. Slučajno spašavanje dvojice brodolomaca prouzročit će obiteljsku tragediju. Godina je 264 pr.Kr.. Nakon Aleksandra Velikog, Kartaga i Rim postali su nove velesile tog vremena, a njihovi će suprotstavljani interesi dovesti do prvog Punskog rata. U ovoj uzbudljivoj drami, likovi će biti uvučeni u...

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Xisco Bonilla

El Viento Del Amor

Guido Pagliarino

El Viento Del Amor

Segunda edición de lujo, con imágenes internas en color, del mismo ensayo publicado en primera edición con Tektime en a precio económico. El carácter de la obra es histórico. Asuntos comunes entre Antiguo y Nuevo testamento y la dirección de la historia por parte de Dios: de acuerdo con la impresión de los escritores veterotestamentarios, la Palabra se revela progresivamente a lo largo de los siglos mediante hechos históricos que inducen a la reflexión teológica. Segunda edición de lujo, con...

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Guido Pagliarino

Seduciendo A Una Princesa Americana

Dawn Brower

Seduciendo A Una Princesa Americana

Dos personas extrañas entablan una amistad y se enamoran en medio del caos de la guerra. La Srta. Brianne Collins está acostumbrada a conseguir todo lo que quiere en la vida. Creció en una genuina plantación sureña, pero quiere más. Unirse a la sociedad neoyorquina parece ser su meta final, pero nada resulta como ella lo imaginó. Hasta que conoce a Lord Julian Kendall y entablan una extraña amistad. Julian Kendall es el segundo hijo del Duque de Weston. Para aliviar su aburrimiento comienza a...

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Dawn Brower

Jesús, Nacido En El Año 6 «antes De...

Guido Pagliarino

Jesús, Nacido En El Año 6 «antes De Cristo» Y Crucificado En El Año 30 (Una Aproximación Histórica)

He aquí algunas afirmaciones que el autor ha oído por televisión y en otras ocasiones: «Con seguridad, el budismo es superior: no tiene la ingenuidad del cristianismo»; «¿Cristo? Un mito, como Osiris o Dionisio»; «Jesús es un personaje histórico, pero solo fue un buen rabino»; «El Apocalipsis, como el resto de los Evangelios, se escribió como mínimo en el siglo II o III»; «La estrella de Belén habría quemado el portal; más aún, habría destruido el mundo: ¡Son invenciones cristianas anteriores a...

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Guido Pagliarino

Ammaliando Il Suo Furfante

Dawn Brower

Ammaliando Il Suo Furfante

La Grande Guerra porta Catherine e Ash l'uno nella vita dell'altra. Solo il tempo dirà se è loro destino stare insieme, o se alla fine serviranno uno scopo superiore. Lady Catherine Langdon è speciale, e non perché è la figlia di un duca. Proviene da una lunga linea di individui nati con doni straordinari, e lei è una dei pochi ad avere una variante di tutti e tre. Sull'orlo di una guerra, prende una decisione che altererà in modo irrevocabile il corso della sua vita – amore o dovere. Asher...

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Dawn Brower

Como Beijar Uma Debutante

Dawn Brower

Como Beijar Uma Debutante

Um encontro ao acaso em um trem leva duas pessoas a se apaixonarem quando menos esperam… e bem durante o Natal! Aletha Dewitt leva uma vida de conto-de-fadas. Ao menos é o que parece para quem olha de fora. Sim, ela tinha tudo o que alguém poderia desejar, exceto respeito. Ela tinha mais ideias e ambições do que o irmão terá algum dia na vida, mas os homens da família eram antiquados demais para notar. No entanto, nada ficaria em seu caminho, nem mesmo o amor. Rafael, o conte Leone, está...

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Dawn Brower

Apaixonada Pelo Espião Americano

Dawn Brower

Apaixonada Pelo Espião Americano

A guerra que os juntou, acabou por separá-los. Anos mais tarde seus caminhos voltam a se cruzar e eles têm mais uma chance de viver aquele amor, mas os medos de Victoria os mantêm separados. Eles sobreviveram em um mundo destruído pela guerra, só o tempo poderá dizer se o amor que encontraram acabará por florescer. William Collins nunca quis deixar os confortos de Lilimar, o seu lar. Um dia a plantação seria dele, e ele dedicou seu coração e sua alma para fazê-la prosperar. Quando a guerra é...

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Dawn Brower

Eternamente Mi Duque

Dawn Brower

Eternamente Mi Duque

Un amor que solamente un cuento de hadas puede crear… Un amor que solamente un cuento de hadas puede crear… Lady Delilah Everly no ha tenido una vida tan maravillosa como algunos podrían creer. El mal ni siquiera empezó a describir a su madre o como debería tratar a las personas que se suponía tenía que amar. A Dalilah se le endureció el corazón y aprendió pronto a depender de sí misma comenzando a adquirir las habilidades necesarias para sobrevivir por su cuenta. Marrok Palmer, el duque de...

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Dawn Brower

Eternamente Meu Duque

Dawn Brower

Eternamente Meu Duque

Um amor que só um conto de fadas pode criar… Um amor que só um conto de fadas pode criar… Lady Delilah Everly não levou a vida encantada que alguns podem acreditar. Perversa nem sequer começava a descrever sua mãe ou como tratava aqueles que deveria amar. Isso endureceu Delilah para o amor e ela aprendeu cedo a apenas depender de si mesma e a ganhar as habilidades necessárias para sobreviver sozinha. Marrok Palmer, o duque de Wolfton, não consegue entender a mudança que sua vida tomou. Para...

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Dawn Brower

When I Was a Child

Vilhelm Moberg

When I Was a Child

At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the poverty-stricken Swedish region of Småland, young Valter, the son of a soldier, explores the world around him and watches his older brothers emigrate to America. In this novel of the life of a farm boy, first published in three volumes in 1946, Vilhelm Moberg sensitively explores his own childhood. When Valter, a boy with great imagination, describes the exciting things he sees so vividly, he is punished for lying, so he...

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Vilhelm Moberg

The Scandinavian Riviera, or Hovlan...

Philip J. Anderson

The Scandinavian Riviera, or Hovland, Minnesota

Largely developed by Norwegians, Swedes, and Swedish-speaking Finns who spread in a short time across eight distinct settlements, the isolated community of Hovland, Minnesota, quickly established a reputation for its natural beauty and the lively activity and hospitality of its people. Excerpted and adapted from the book Norwegians and Swedes in the United States: Friends and Neighbors edited by Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck.

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Philip J. Anderson

The Bones of Plenty

Lois Phillips Hudson

The Bones of Plenty

Lois Phillips Hudson eloquently portrays George Custer, a determined and angry man who must battle both the land and the landlord; his hard-working wife Rachel; and their young and vulnerable daughter Lucy. Through their compelling story looms a sense of a whole nation's tragedy during the Great Depression. Reviews of The Bones of Plenty: "It is possible . . .that literary historians of the future will decide that The Bones of Plenty...

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Lois Phillips Hudson

No Fascist USA!

Hilary Moore

No Fascist USA!

– The racist violence on display in Charlottesville struck an alarming wake-up call about the rise of white supremacy, anti-Semitism, and pro-fascism have during the Trump presidency. As these flash points continue to occur and tip into the news cycle, Jamey Tracy and Hilary Moore will be able to address them from the standpoint of the history of radical groups’ efforts to confront similar outbreaks when white supremacists felt they had a friend in the White House. – Will be...

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Hilary Moore

COSSAC

Stephen C. Kepher

COSSAC

When Frederick Morgan was appointed COSSAC (Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander), in the spring of 1943, there was no approved plan for a cross-Channel attack and no commander. There was not even agreement about when the re-entry into the Continent would occur. The western Allies were in the midst of a great debate about the strategy or strategies to defeat Nazi Germany. COSSAC’s primary task was to create a plan that would be approved by the inter-allied Combined Chiefs of Staff....

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Stephen C. Kepher

Out and Proud in Chicago

Tracy Baim

Out and Proud in Chicago

Out and Proud in Chicago takes readers through the long and rich history of the city's LGBT community. Lavishly illustrated with color and black-and white-photographs, the book draws on a wealth of scholarly, historical, and journalistic sources. Individual sections cover the early days of the 1800s to World War II, the challenging community-building years from World War II to the 1960s, the era of gay liberation and AIDS from the 1970s to the 1990s, and on to the city's...

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Tracy Baim

The Memory Marketplace

Emilie Pine

The Memory Marketplace

What happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In The Memory Marketplace , Emilie Pine explores how memory is performed both in Ireland and abroad by considering the significant body of contemporary Irish theatre that contends with its own culture and history. Analyzing examples from this realm of theatre, Pine focuses on the idea of witnesses, both as performers on stage and as members of the audience. Whose memories are observed in these transactions, and how and...

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Emilie Pine

Ideology and the Rationality of Dom...

Gerhard Wolf

Ideology and the Rationality of Domination

Following the brutal invasion and occupation of Poland, the Nazis put measures into place: remove the Jews, bring in German settlers, and racially classify the rest of the population in order to separate Poles from ethnic Germans. Gerhard Wolf reveals an astonishing reality in which the plan met with massive resistance from various Nazi occupation institutions, especially when it came to deeming a majority of Polish citizens as «racially unfit.» According to Wolf, the everchanging environment of...

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Gerhard Wolf

Michigan Motivations

Cyle Young

Michigan Motivations

Over the past century, the Wolverines have created heroes and legends that excite both the young and old. From the first football game in 1879 to the hundreds of thousands of faithful fans that cheer on the most triumphant program in college football history, University of Michigan football has an undeniable legacy.In Michigan Motivations: A Year of Inspiration with the University of Michigan Wolverines, authors Cyle Young and Del Duduit relive the most famous moments and show readers how they...

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Cyle Young

Piercing the Horizon

Sunny Tsiao

Piercing the Horizon

We all know the names: Grissom, Armstrong, Cernan-legends of the space age whose names resonate with people around the world and whose deeds need no introduction. We know less about the men who led the organization that planned and began the US exploration of space: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Thomas O. Paine grew up an ordinary boy in northern California during the Great Depression of the 1930s. He would go on to serve as NASA's third administrator, leading...

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Sunny Tsiao

The Deans' Bible

Angie Klink

The Deans' Bible

Five women successively nurtured students on the Purdue University campus in America's heartland during the 1930s to 1990s. Each became a legendary dean of women or dean of students. Collectively, they wove a sisterhood of mutual support in their common-sometimes thwarted-pursuit of shared human rights and equality for all. Dorothy C. Stratton, Helen B. Schleman, M. Beverley Stone, Barbara I. Cook, and Betty M. Nelson opened new avenues for women and became conduits for change, fostering...

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Angie Klink

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