1000 Fun Facts About Africa: Discover the Fascinating History, Culture, Wildlife, and Geography of the African Continent, One Incredible Fact at a ... by Taji Okar (1 Review)    Price verified 26 minutes ago

Embark on an exhilarating adventure across the vast and diverse continent of Africa with "1000 Fun Facts About Africa." Packed with fascinating tidbits Embark on an exhilarating adventure across the vast and diverse continent of Africa with "1000 Fun Facts About Africa." Packed with fascinating tidbits about ancient civilizations, vibrant cultures, majestic wildlife, and breathtaking landscapes, this book is your passport to the wonders of Africa. From the ancient wonders of Egypt to the bustling markets of Marrakech, from the ...

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LAS VEGAS: MOB CITY by Ignacio Esteban (5 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Las Vegas has many names such as Sin City, the City of Lights and Mob City just to name a few. There is no city like Las Vegas with world class casinos, hotels, shows, sports and sightseeing is second to none. Vegas does have a dark side with a history tied to organized crime that includes some of the most infamous mobsters in U.S. history like Bugsy Seigel, Myer Lansky, Johnny Roselli, Gus Greenbaum, Lefty Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro just to name a few. The saying goes, Built it and they will come and Las Vegas is a perfect example ...

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100 Gemini Celebrities: Discover the Lives and Personalities of Gemini Celebrities in This Comprehensive Collection by Wes Carsen (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Step into the world of the stars with "100 Gemini Celebrities: Discover the Lives and Personalities of Gemini Celebrities in This Comprehensive Collection". This captivating anthology offers an intimate look at 100 famous personalities born under the Gemini zodiac sign, known for their versatility, intellect, and vibrant energy. From actors to musicians, writers to athletes, this book is a treasure trove of fascinating mini-biographies, each one revealing the unique characteristics and life stories of Gemini celebrities. Accompanied ...

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A Result Driven Life by Lorenzo C Mailum Jr (1 Review)    Price verified 26 minutes ago

Witness an extraordinary journey with "A Result-Driven Life," a motivational self-help book that narrates the incredible life journey of a resilient Filipino child. This inspiring success story encapsulates the transformation from extreme poverty to millionaire status through hard work and perseverance. This remarkable life journey unfolds from a remote barrio where the struggle to complete high school was overshadowed by the harsh realities of poverty. Undeterred by adversity, the child is enlisted in the US Navy as a steward ...

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True Crime Trivia 3: Test Your Knowledge of Serial Killers, Unsolved Mysteries, Infamous Crimes, Hoaxes & More with 250 Chilling & Fascinating Quiz ... by Michelle Tooker (Beguile Media) (15 Reviews)    Price verified 26 minutes ago

Explore even more of the dark and fascinating world of true crime with this well-researched trivia book! In book three of the #1 ranking True Crime Trivia Series, author, podcaster and researcher Michelle Tooker takes you on a journey through some of the most notorious crimes in history. With 250 true crime trivia quiz questions, you'll test your knowledge of everything from hoaxes to serial killers and unsolved mysteries to cold cases. Whether you're a longtime true crime enthusiast or a curious newcomer, True Crime Trivia 3 is ...

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A Second Fall by James Green Price verified 7 hours ago

As a kid, her story greeted my ears with a renewed flavour each time it came. There were stories that made children tremble with fear especially if told at night, and Mary's was one. But even so, we yearned for more. One cold evening, my aged grandma told me that she actually saw the days when Mary laboured in people's farms. So she was not an imaginary Mary but one that once lived. Knowing this has seen her story drift from a tasteful horror to a condemnable reality. It is a crime too difficult to forgive, at least, within the ...

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Not Many Mighty: Liars, Cheats, Killers, and Other Inspirational Bible Heroes by Paul Combs (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

The heroes of the Bible have come down to us through the centuries as towering figures immortalized in marble and stained glass. But the actual text of the Bible presents a far more complicated, and more encouraging, picture of these Old and New Testament saints. From Moses to Jonah, from Peter to Paul, they were like us in every way. This book tells the other side of the story you got in Sunday school.

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True Crime Case Histories - Volume 13: 12 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder, Deception, and Mayhem (Volume 13) by Jason Neal (227 Reviews)    Price verified 26 minutes ago

12 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and Mayhem Volume 13 of the True Crime Case Histories Series *** This series can be read in any order *** Not everyone has the stomach for the dark details of True Crime. But some of us feel an irresistible pull to these stories - whether it's a burning drive to see justice served, a need to comprehend the depraved criminal mind, or simple curiosity about how detectives cracked the case. True Crime Case Histories Volume 13 brings to light twelve new stories spanning the past fifty years, ...

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The Adventures of Martha Lou and Me: A Collection of Short Stories by Josephine Krause (10 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

My paternal grandma, from the Deep South, was as backwoods as a body could get. She was so country, that country folk looked like high falutin city folk, compared to her. Grandma had a noteworthy Southern dialect that left me gobsmacked every time she spoke. It was fascinating, captivating, enchanting, and a tad odd. I spent my adolescent years growing up in the North having fun adventures with my sisters, especially Martha Lou, since she was the mistress of mischief. Martha Lou turned ordinary events into exciting experiences. The ...

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The Story of Gunnar Hansen: A Novel by John C. Dailey Price verified 26 minutes ago

COURAGE AND FAITH IN SPITE OF ADVERSITY Hoping to reunite spiritually with his deceased wife, Kathleen, Gunnar Hansen, 73, embarks on a three-week solo canoe trip. The Quetico-Superior wilderness canoe country on the Minnesota Ontario border is the setting for this uplifting adventure story. After surviving near death from his wounds in Vietnam, Gunnar survives his canoe trip with the help of the mysterious Abigail Fraser. "From college to Vietnam combat to career and family, joy and tragedy must be reconciled here. Yet through it ...

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From Dreams To Despair: Essays from an American 2016-2023 by William Lobb (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

A collection of blogs and posts from 2016 to present. A lot or readers have requested a compilation, this is the result.

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Just My Luck: A Humorous Account of Life's Absurdities by Kyle Woodruff (2 Reviews)    Price verified 26 minutes ago

Being a human has many painful and embarrassing moments, many of which are funny with the right twist of perspective. Just My Luck nimbly walks the tightrope of comedy and political correctness with a collection of essays that turns frowns right side up again. Observational humor and self-deprecation are the foundation of these stories, relatable at every turn. If you've ever had a childhood, taken a dump, or been to the DMV then this book is for you. Just be prepared to never look at getting your blood drawn the same way again.

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Grandfather Lost by Vella Munn (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Violent death mystery lasts for one hundred years In 1924, Homer Eon Flint, a thirty six year old multi-published writer and married father of three young children was found dead at the bottom of a canyon. According to a witness and the police, he was pinned under a taxi with a loaded pistol nearby. The media sensationalized his violent end. Some sources suggested he'd participated in an earlier bank robbery. Several friends even considered that he'd committed suicide because of his interest in the occult. The taxi driver--who died ...

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Searching for Dr. Harris: The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician (Studies in Social Medicine) by Margaret Humphreys (The University of North Carolina Press) Price verified 7 hours ago

This is the untold story of Dr. J. D. Harris, an African American physician whose life and career straddled enormous changes for Black professionals and the practice of medicine. Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Harris served as a contract physician to the Union Army and transitioned to a similar post under the Freedmen's Bureau, treating Black troops and freemen in Virginia. Margaret Humphreys narrates not only what we know about Harris, but offers context to his remarkable journey, including how incredible it was that a young ...

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Top Models by Samuel Claesson (Sequoia Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

There were a lot of talents in Hollywood in the 1950s, some of whom -despite being talented- faded into obscurity after a brief fling at stardom. I thought that it'd be great to pay tribute to seven whom appeared in films like Guys and Dolls (1955) while modeling for some prominent brands. June Kirby (1928-2022), Larri Thomas (1932-2013), and Pat Sheehan (1931-2006) are the blondes, and Suzanne Ames (1933-2013), Suzanne Alexander (1931-1975), Madelyn Darrow (1935-2015), and Jann Darlyn are the brunettes. They could act, sing, dance, ...

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Unbuttoning America: A Biography of "Peyton Place" by Ardis Cameron (Cornell University Press) (15 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace Metalious, a housewife who grew up in poverty in a New Hampshire mill town and had aspired to be a writer from childhood, loosely based the novel's setting, characters, and incidents on real-life places, people, and events. The novel sold more than 30 million copies in ...

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The Girl With No Mouth by Edith Broadwater (3 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

The ups and downs of mental illness fully submerge and threaten to drown any who stand too close. Written during months of periodic psychosis, the full power of any and all emotion are felt overwhelmingly and seemingly permanent: despair and emptiness before an attempted prescription overdose, fear and hysteria from a powerful hallucination, the crazy that people hide behind saying that they're just sad when really -- they're being constricted by an invisible, impending doom that freezes their heart, squeezes their eyeballs, and ...

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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women by Elbert Hubbard (6 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Changing the Cycle: My Life by Dale Thornton (2 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Many traumatizing events from my childhood. How they affected me and what I learned from them.

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Richard Owen: Scotland 1810, Indiana 1890 (The Founders Series) by Victor Lincoln Albjerg (Purdue University Press) Price verified 3 hours ago

Richard Dale Owen was born in 1810 in Scotland to a wealthy textile manufacturer and philanthropist. The youngest of eight children, Richard grew up at the family estate of Braxfield House, where he received his early education from private tutors. He would later go on to study chemistry, physics, and natural sciences, among other subjects, traveling between Scotland and Switzerland for his schooling. Owen arrived in the United States in 1828 to teach in New Haven, Indiana, where his father was running an experimental utopian ...

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The Hovde Years: A Biography of Frederick L. Hovde (The Founders Series) by Robert W. Topping (Purdue University Press) Price verified 3 hours ago

This biography details Hovde's life and times from his birth at Erie, Pennsylvania, through his boyhood at Devils Lake, North Dakota, and includes his student days at the University of Minnesota and in England and Europe as a Rhodes scholar. In addition, it outlines his career from the time he returned to the United States from England in 1932, as well as when he went back again in 1941 as the United States secretary for American-British scientific research and development exchange efforts. Principally, it covers his twenty-five ...

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Edward Charles Elliott, Educator (The Founders Series) by Frank K. Burrin (Purdue University Press) Price verified 3 hours ago

A study of the 50-year career of Edward Charles Elliott is a study of the development of American education. Elliott had experience as a high school and college teacher, school system superintendent, state college system chancellor, and president of a Big Ten university, all during a period of change in American attitudes toward public schooling and rapid growth in education institutions. As president of Purdue University from 1922 to 1945, Elliott steered the school through years of expansion in size, prestige, and service. Student ...

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The Dean: A Biography of A.A. Potter (The Founders Series) by Robert B. Eckles (Purdue University Press) Price verified 4 hours ago

More than 20,000 engineering students at Purdue University have been touched in some way by the ides or the warm personality of Andrey A. Potter, who served for 33 years as dean of the Schools of Engineering at Purdue, the world's largest engineering institution. Awarded the honorary title of "Dean of the Deans of Engineering Universities" in 1949 by his alma mater, MIT, Potter has been a teacher for 48 years and a dean for 40. Among his thousands of colleagues at Kansas State, Purdue, and the professional societies he has headed, he ...

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Rafi Ahmed Kidwai: BRIDGING REGION and nation : a political biography by RATHIN BISWAS (Notion Press) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

"Pandit Ko bhi Salam hai aur maulvi ko bhi, mazhab na chahiye mujhe imaan chahiye." - Akbar Allahabadi "Rafi Ahmed Kidwai: Bridging Region and Nation" is a political biography of a congressman from Uttar Pradesh to whom nothing mattered but Indian freedom. During pre-partitioned days when greatest of the Muslims queued to Muhammad Ali Jinnah in his Pakistan movement, he stood his guns with resolute firmness. He was Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's closest colleague, India's first communication Minister and was one of the two Muslims in the ...

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Babysitter: An American History by Miriam Forman-Brunell (NYU Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

On Friday nights many parents want to have a little fun together -- without the kids. But "getting a sitter" -- especially a dependable one -- rarely seems trouble-free. Will the kids be safe with "that girl"? It's a question that discomfited parents have been asking ever since the emergence of the modern American teenage girl nearly a century ago. In Babysitter, Miriam Forman-Brunell brings critical attention to the ubiquitous, yet long-overlooked babysitter in the popular imagination and American history. Informed by her research ...

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The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture by Henry Jenkins (3 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

A spirited collection of essays that get to the heart of what gives popular culture its emotional impact Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their acts -- a final moment of peak spectacle following a gradual building of audience's emotions. Viewed by most critics as vulgar and sensationalistic, the vaudeville aesthetic was celebrated by other writers for its vitality, its liveliness, and its playfulness. The Wow Climax follows in the path of this more laudatory tradition, drawing out ...

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The Essential Agus: The Writings of Jacob B. Agus by Steven T. Katz (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Rabbi Jacob Agus' (1911-1986) intellectual production spanned nearly a half century and covered an enormous historical and conceptual range, from the biblical to the modern era. Best known as an important Jewish scholar, he also held important rabbinic, teaching, and public positions. Although born and raised within an orthodox setting, Agus was strongly influenced by American liberalism and his work displayed modernizing sympathies, reservations about nationalism--including some forms of Zionism--and often severe criticisms of ...

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Reflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France (The History of Disability Book 5) by Therese-Adèle Husson (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

In the 1820s, several years before Braille was invented, Therese-Adele Husson, a young blind woman from provincial France, wrote an audacious manifesto about her life, French society, and her hopes for the future. Through extensive research and scholarly detective work, authors Catherine Kudlick and Zina Weygand have rescued this intriguing woman and the remarkable story of her life and tragic death from obscurity, giving readers a rare look into a world recorded by an unlikely historical figure. Reflections is one of the earliest ...

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God's Good Works: Stories to Treasure and Tales to Ponder by Lorilyn Roberts (Rear Guard Publishing, Inc.) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

God's Good Works: Stories to Treasure and Tales to Ponder is a heartfelt faith-based collection of anecdotes and insightful lessons drawn from everyday experiences. It also examines the current American and global political climates through the lens of biblical eschatology. Beginning in 2020, the battle between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Darkness exploded with Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and the January 6, 2021 "Capitol insurrection." Could we be living in the final days before the coming New World Order and the rapture ...

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Borden of Yale: The Life and Legacy of William Borden - No Reserve, No Retreat, No Regrets by Mrs. Howard Taylor (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

The Inspiring Life and Legacy of William Borden, a Man of Unwavering Faith and Profound Impact William Borden was extraordinary in almost every sense. Born into wealth and privilege, he could have chosen to live a life of luxury and ease. Instead, he surrendered it all for a life of service to Christ. "Borden of Yale" is the riveting account of a man who exemplified what it means to be fully committed to God. Raised in Moody Church in Chicago and educated at both Yale and Princeton, Borden first felt the missionary call during a ...

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Grace O'Malley: The Pirate Queen of Ireland (Pirate Chronicles Book 1) by History Nerds (33 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

The name Grace O'Malley stands forever as a sign and symbol that even in repressive times no one can be held back that chooses their destiny. A Pirate, a wife, a mother, and a fearsome warrior, Grace carved her name in the annuls of history standing up to Lords, ladies, and even Queen Elizabeth as she refused to bow the knee to someone she called "an equal". A strong woman in a day where men sought to ignore them, a Pirate who fought better than many men, and a fearsome warrior who is quoted in the middle of a battle as having ...

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Making Peace in an Age of War: Emperor Ferdinand III (1608–1657) (Central European Studies) by Mark Hengerer (Purdue University Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 56 minutes ago

This English-language translation of Mark Hengerer's Kaiser Ferdinand III: 1608-1657 Eine Biographie is based on an analysis of the weekly reports sent by the papal nuncio's office to the Vatican. These reports give detailed information about the daily whereabouts of the dynasty, courtiers, and foreign visitors, and they contain the gossip of the court in addition to weekly analysis of some political problems. This material enabled the author to report on daily life of the dynasty and to analyze the circumstances under which policy ...

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American Men of Action by Burton Egbert Stevenson (7 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Eva and Otto: Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler by Tom Pfister (Purdue University Press) (22 Reviews)    Price verified 26 minutes ago

Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910-1991) and Otto Pfister (1900-1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans -- Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic -- who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940. After their improbable escapes from separate internment and imprisonment ...

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Ike's Letters to a Friend, 1941-1958 by Robert W. Griffith (University Press of Kansas) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

"Swede Hazlett was one of the people to whom I 'opened up.'" -- Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower and E. E. ("Swede") Hazlett grew up together in Abilene, Kansas, and remained close, corresponding regularly from 1941 until Hazlett's death in 1958. The letters collected in this volume, many of them surprisingly revealing, contain Eisenhower's views on a wide range of diplomatic, military, and political issues. Taken together they constitute a remarkable inner history of Eisenhower's public career. Robert Griffith's ...

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Meet the Man from Hobbtown by Dennis R Smith (17 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

In Dennis' words: "Meet the Man from Hobbtown is a record of my life, written now when, at the present date, I am eighty-eight years old. After being asked many times by my two daughters, Pamela (Smith) Hill, of Portland, Oregon, and Angela Smith, of Springfield, Missouri, I have finally yielded to their wishes and put in print a great part of my life. I have not done this for any financial benefit, but I hope that my entire family will appreciate this history, which has its start in the year I was born, December 11, 1929." The ...

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Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel by John F. Sears (Purdue University Press) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Refuge Must Be Given details the evolution of Eleanor Roosevelt from someone who harbored negative impressions of Jews to become a leading Gentile champion of Israel in the United States. The book explores, for the first time, Roosevelt's partnership with the Quaker leader Clarence Pickett in seeking to admit more refugees into the United States, and her relationship with Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, who was sympathetic to the victims of Nazi persecution yet defended a visa process that failed both Jewish and non-Jewish ...

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My Life: A Story of God's Grace by Roger Mohrlang (12 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This is the story of a small-town Nebraska boy whose life was transformed by his conversion to Christ and his study of scripture during his college years as a physics student. In a most unlikely way, he went on to become a missionary Bible translator, living in a mud hut among the Kamw? people in northeastern Nigeria, and then a professor of biblical studies at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. But this is really the fascinating story of God's grace, leading and providing for him over the past sixty years of his ...

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Rowland Hill: His Life, Anecdotes, and Pulpit Sayings by Vernon J. Charlesworth (Aneko Press) Price verified 5 hours ago

Rowland Hill was humorous, but he was a great deal more, and those who know his lifework will not remember him as exemplifying one single quality, but as a good, childlike man in whom nothing for Christ was restrained. Considering him as he was overall, we will not soon see anyone like him again. There was no dishonesty or duplicity in him. He loved his Lord and the souls of men, and he threw all his might into the pursuit of doing good. Certainly few men were ever more unselfish. People called him eccentric because they themselves ...

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Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia: A Multi-perspective View on Sword Culture (Martial Studies Book 2) by Hing Chao (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to this volume include historians, archeologists, art historians, scholars of fencing literature, metallurgists, as well as contemporary master swordsmiths and masters-of-arms in historical martial arts. Assembling researchers from these diverse fields, this book offers a ...

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Historic Girls Stories Of Girls Who Have Influenced The History Of Their Times by Elbridge Streeter Brooks (113 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Elbridge Streeter Brooks (3 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (Global Publishers) (7,253 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods during which he wrote them. There are actual breaks ...

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Of fiber and people by Bruno Fernandes (Editora Sextante) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

"GVT's strength lies in the originality of its business model, as well as its technological model." - Jean-Bernard Lévy, former CEO, Vivendi "GVT has an incredible story, leveraging its latest generation network and technology with a DNA that is highly focused on innovation." - Marco Patuano, former CEO, Telecom Italia In 1999, Shaul Shani and Amos Genish, two fearless businessmen, without any experience in the Brazilian telecommunications market, driven by a great dream but with limited capital, built GVT and took on the ...

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Building Fires and Finding Stars: Why I Never Stop Traveling by Jason Cooper (4 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

After tragedy struck his family and his five-year relationship with his girlfriend ended, Jason packed his suitcase and headed for his first summer-long solo adventure through Europe. But he discovered that his problems didn't disappear as soon as he stepped off the plane. He was still filled with anxiety and needed to overcome his depression, come to terms with who he is, and accept his failures and the changes that altered his trajectory. Jason didn't know that his trip to Europe was only just the beginning. Soon, he'd be on a ...

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Dream Baby (Stories from My Life) by Ronald Kidd (16 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

A short memoir about the miraculous story of our daughter Maggie's birth From Dream Baby: Almost immediately Yvonne began to dream -- big, vivid, wonderful dreams, like water gushing over a dam. It was the beginning of a remarkable adventure. We didn't know it, but it was also the beginning of Maggie. Dreams are what brought her here. Dreams raised our hopes, sent them crashing down again, then at the last minute opened a window for the briefest possible instant, and our sweet daughter came tumbling through. Ronald Kidd is a ...

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Poesía fuiste tú (Spanish Edition) by María Guadalupe Loaeza Tovar (97 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

A más de 40 años de su fallecimiento, se publica este volúmen que te invita a redescubrir a una de las autoras más prolíficas que ha dado México: Rosario Castellanos. Poeta, ensayista, novelista y periodista; Rosario uso su pluma para redescubrir el mundo. Y ahora por medio de algunos de los mejores autores contemporáneos, podemos redescubrir a Rosario.

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Con Zapatos de Fiesta... en las Nieves de Siberia (Spanish Edition) by Sandra Kalniete (Lasītava) (92 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Reseña del editor: El libro de Sandra Kalniete constituye un elocuente y conmovedor testimonio de la vida de su familia y de toda la nación letona: de su destino compartido durante más de cincuenta años de ocupación. Es un férreo alegato en contra de la inhumana represión perpetrada por Unión Soviética y la Alemania Nazi. Pero, sobre todo, es una historia de supervivencia humana. Con zapatos de fiesta en las nieves de Siberia es el libro más traducido de la historia reciente de Letonia. Biografía del autor: Sandra ...

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Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland (3 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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corporate [g]ripping stories: mamma, che impresa! by AAVV (Edizioni dEste) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This publication is part of the Mamma, che impresa! project, a workshop that promotes corporate culture, founded on the initiative of Rancilio Cube and open to collaborations and synergies.The stories of nine bright business case-histories, narrated, together with professional writers, by those who have founded them and lead them, and the stories that won a national essay contest for students from Italian schools, called to bring youths closer to the idea of ??entrepreneurship and its importance.One of the ten stories by the very ...

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The Nigerian Prince: When The Scammer Becomes The Scammed by L. Toshua Parker (31 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

The true story of one college student's revenge on the Nigerian 419 scammers and the search for millions in missing cash.

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Researching National Security Intelligence: Multidisciplinary Approaches by Stephen Coulthart (Georgetown University Press) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Researchers in the rapidly growing field of intelligence studies face unique and difficult challenges ranging from finding and accessing data on secret activities, to sorting through the politics of intelligence successes and failures, to making sense of complex socio-organizational or psychological phenomena. The contributing authors to Researching National Security Intelligence survey the state of the field and demonstrate how incorporating multiple disciplines helps to generate high-quality, policy-relevant research. Following ...

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Historias de Mi Vieja (Spanish Edition) by Yaisledy Cuba de Pérez (8 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Cada historia real narra cómo la madre de la autora pasó de ser una jovencita traviesa a una mujer de oración. En cada página encontrarás testimonios de una persona que supo cultivar una estrecha relación con el Señor, demostrando que no es con nuestras propias fuerzas, sino con el poder de Dios que se pueden alcanzar las metas. La autora menciona: "Sé que será de gran bendición para todos los que lean este libro, porque a través de los testimonios de vida narrados podremos armarnos de fe, entendiendo la necesidad de ...

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Mon journal (1892-1917) (French Edition) by Léon Bloy (30 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Ce livre est une oeuvre du domaine public éditée au format numérique par Norph-Nop. L'achat de l'édition Kindle inclut le téléchargement via un réseau sans fil sur votre liseuse et vos applications de lecture Kindle

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The Midas of the Wabash: A Biography of John Purdue (The Founders Series) by Robert C. Kriebel (Purdue University Press) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

The Midas of the Wabash is a biography of noted businessman John Purdue (1802-1876), whose donations of time and money led to the founding of Indiana's land grant university, Purdue University, in 1869. Purdue also contributed to economically important bridge, railroad, and cemetery construction, the existence of Lafayette Savings Bank and the Battle Ground Collegiate Institute, cattle farming, Lafayette's public school system, and countless other worthy enterprises. This is the first published full length study of Mr. Purdue's life ...

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Ross-Ade: Their Purdue Stories, Stadium, and Legacies (The Founders Series) by Robert C. Kriebel (Purdue University Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Dave Ross (1871-1943) and George Ade (1866-1944) were trustees, distinguished alumni and benefactors of Purdue University. Their friendship began in 1922 and led to their giving land and money for the 1924 construction of Ross-Ade Stadium, now a 70,000 seat athletic landmark on the West Lafayette campus. Their life stories date to 1883 Purdue and involve their separate student experiences and eventual fame. Their lives crossed paths with U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart, and Will Rogers among others. ...

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Coal in our Veins: A Personal Journey by Erin Ann Thomas (Utah State University Press) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

In Coal in Our Veins, Erin Thomas employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of her book, she visits Wales, native ground of British coal mining and of her emigrant ancestors. The Thomases' move to the coal region of Utah -- where they witnessed the Winter Quarters and Castle Gate mine explosions, two of the worst mining ...

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Sustainable Development in the Jordan Valley: Final Report of the Regional NGO Master Plan (Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and ... by Jeroen Kool (Springer) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book summarizes the NGO Master Plan that provides a comprehensive program to rehabilitate the Lower Jordan River and its tributaries in Jordan, Israel and Palestine. It is a regional and civil society effort designed to promote the restoration of the valley's environmental and ecological values within a realistic financial and economic framework. The plan identifies 127 specific regional and national "interventions"(projects) until the year 2050, based on seven strategic planning objectives: pollution control, sustainable water ...

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Being SAGE: 55th Anniversary Edition by Publishing SAGE (SAGE Publications, Inc) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Over drinks with her favorite professor and her future husband, a 25-year-old Sara Miller founded one of the most influential academic publishing houses on the planet. This career-spanning autobiography follows Sara Miller McCune and the company that emerged from that cocktail hour, SAGE Publishing. Read along as over 55 years SAGE grows from publishing a single journal promoted by direct mail (from a list provided by Daniel Patrick Moynihan) into a globe-spanning and proudly independent company with a core belief that engaged ...

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The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. by William M. (William Makepeace) Thayer (37 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Dr. Johnson and His Circle by John Cann Bailey (6 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Griot: A Chapbook by the Nia Centre for the Arts, Black Pen Writing Workshop by Yvvana Yeboah Duku (Knopf Canada) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Nia Centre for the Arts is a Toronto-based charity that supports, promotes, and showcases art from across the Afro-Diaspora. We build the creative capacity of our community and support the development of a healthy identity in young people through artistic development, mentorship and employment opportunities. We are a platform for the arts that is rooted in the diversity of Black-Canadian experiences. In 2021, we hand-selected six emerging writers to participate in the Black Pen writing intensive program. The writers in this ...

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How to Lead Like Abraham Lincoln: Leading in a Way That Drives History (The Magic of an Influencer) by Christopher Coopersmith (39 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Craving inspiration from the greats? Discover the key wisdom Lincoln brought to the people as he led the US into the future. Looking to raise yourself to new heights? Are you keen to win admiration from your team? Do you want to leave a memorable legacy? MBA, Corporate Business Operations Manager, and dedicated student of formative history Christopher S. Coopersmith uses his considerable knowledge to motivate others. Now he's here to share how the unique decision-making process of America's sixteenth president can help elevate your ...

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When I Met Jesus: A Lifelong Journey of Faith, Hope and Trust by Debra Moore Ewing (115 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Debra Moore Ewing's motto is to live life with no regrets. As she found herself nearing the last third of her life, she knew it was time to share her secret--something she had kept hidden for 52 years. "When you've seen Jesus and the afterlife, there is no fear. Living life is a process until it's time to return home." She hopes that by sharing this, her story might help others to replace fear with faith when you hear of her first-hand experiences with Him.

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Song To Kill A Giant by Sandra Kalniete (Publicetava) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Pirms 25 gadiem Latvijas, Igaunijas un Lietuvas cilv?ki Amerikas Savienotaj?s Valst?s apvienoja n?cijas Amerikas Savienotaj?s Valst?s. aicin?jums p?c taisn?guma, apstr?d?ja padomju milzu. ?? mier?g? dzied??anas revol?cija ir satricin?jusi pasauli, jo to apdraud prec?zi piel?gota pasaules k?rt?bas bipol?r? bilance. Toreiz gandr?z neviens netic?ja, ka Baltijas valst?m b?s liel?ka patst?v?ba Padomju Savien?b?, nemaz nerun?jot par to, ka vi?i atg?s savu neatkar?bu. Baltijas valstu neatkar?bas kust?bu pan?kumi Padomju Savien?b? t?s ...

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Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel (Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History) by Yuri Leving (Academic Studies Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Yuri Leving's Keys to "The Gift": A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov's most complex Russian novel, The Gift (1934-1939). From notes in Nabokov's private correspondence to scholarly articles accumulated during the seventy years since the novel's first appearance in print, the work draws from a broad spectrum of existing material in a succinct and coherent way, as well as providing innovative analyses. The first part of the monograph, "The Novel," outlines the basic ...

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In Contempt: Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC by Ed Yellin (University of Michigan Press) (11 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

"YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to be and appear before the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives of the United States, or a duly appointed subcommittee thereof, on February 10 (Monday), 1958, at ten o'clock a.m. at City Council Chambers, City Hall, Gary, Indiana, then and there to testify touching matters of inquiry committed to said committee, and not to depart without leave of said committee." So began a decade of hardship for Ed and Jean Yellin and their three young children as the repressive weight of ...

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Pad's Army by Paul Addy (118 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

A brief factual account from memory of one man's journey through life in the British Army from 1975 to 1999 and how a gormless face, an unrealistic belief in 'Rodger the Dodger' and a determination to survive conquered all, well... nearly all - no one's perfect.

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From Vienna to Tel Aviv, a long journey: Memoirs of Berthe Moritz by Francis Moritz (54 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book tells the story of Berthe Moritz, our grandmother, from Vienna to France. It is the story of an Austrian Jewish family from the war to the present day. With the words our grandmother, so that we can remember and for all those who are interested!

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Wee Forrest by Don Mance (18 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

The true story of a father's redemption, forgiveness and healing.

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The Codes of the Street in Risky Neighborhoods: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Youth Violence in Germany, Pakistan, and South Africa by Wilhelm Heitmeyer (Springer) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 26 minutes ago

This book presents a comparative look at the norms and attitudes related to youth violence. It aims to present a perspective outside of the typical Western context, through case studies comparing a developed / Western democracy (Germany), a country with a history of institutionalized violence (South Africa), and an emerging democracy that has experienced heavy terrorism (Pakistan). Building on earlier works, the research presented in this innovative volume provides new insights into the sociocultural context for shaping both young ...

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On Closure and Crime (Indigo Express) by Elizabeth Chakrabarty (The Indigo Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

"Twice in my life, when I've least expected it -- relaxed in a bar with acquaintances, a glass of wine in my hand -- someone has asked me this question: 'When did you realise you're not white?'... " -- Elizabeth Chakrabarty, author of Lessons in Love and Other CrimesElizabeth Chakrabarty's 'On Crime and Closure' is part of The Indigo Press's short-form Indigo Express series -- short essays and fiction commissioned in companion with, and in celebration of, our authors' books. Find out more on www.theindigopress.com/exclusive-writing/

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The Life of Jesus Christ: A Biographical Overview of the Life of Christ by James Stalker (Aneko Press) (112 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

There was only one man who was so important that His birth caused our calendar to split in two (B.C./A.D). There was only one man who, despite being tempted, did not sin even once. There was only one man who died for your sins and mine and by whom we can have eternal life. That man was Jesus Christ of Nazareth. How much do you know about Jesus? Have you spent much time thinking about how He lived? Do you know Him? James Stalker carefully goes through each stage of Jesus' life and presents, in a biographical format, what we know ...

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Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe (Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict) by Tuuli Lähdesmäki (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on migration, on local, national, inter- and transnational levels, prove that it is a divisive issue with regards to understanding European integration and identity. At the same time, the European Union increasingly invests in projects related to European heritage, museums, and cultural memory networks, while having to ...

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Another Valley, Another Victory: Three Tragedies, One Faithful Woman, Victory in Jesus by Valetta Steel Crumley (One Mission Society) (47 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Tragedy is timeless and universal. So is victory, which is defined by the author's life as letting God have the controls - allowing him to expose previously hidden beauty, now displayed for the sake of others. This inspiring life story has moved countless others to overcome and look at adversity from God's perspective. When viewed from the top, a valley is precious and beautiful. Valetta lost her young son Danny to leukemia; her husband Henry succumbed to Hodgkin's disease a few years later; then she lost her remaining two children ...

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Tanna Times: Islanders in the World (Sustainable History Monograph Pilot) by Lamont Lindstrom (University of Hawaii Press) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Anthropologists like to tell other people's stories but local experts tell them even better. This book introduces the vibrant living culture and fascinating history of Tanna, an island in Vanuatu, Melanesia, through the stories of a dozen interconnected Tanna Islanders. Tracing the past 250 years of island experiences that cross the globe, each of these distinctly extraordinary lives tells larger human narratives of cultural continuity and change. In following Tanna's times, we find that all of us, even those living on seemingly ...

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Missionary Warrior: Charles E. Cowman by Lettie B. Cowman (202 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

"Called to Japan. August 11, 1900, 10:30 a.m." When Charles E. Cowman made this notation in his Bible, he did not know how the Lord was going to use him over the next 24 years. From telegraph operator to faith missionary to founder of a missions organization that continues strong today, Cowman's driving force was always for more people to come to know Jesus as their personal Savior. Though his story is more than a century old, his example of a life dedicated to following his Lord, wherever that led him, continues to inspire many ...

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Littérature notre ciel! (French Edition) by Daniel Rondeau (Grasset) Price verified 7 hours ago

"Au moment d'être propulsé par la porte du tambour dans le hall de l'hôtel Schweitzer Hof, j'avais aperçu un homme qui me tendait le bras en rugissant. Un sourire large, une voix de stentor, une crinière lisse et blanche, un nez pointu, un regard noir, très tendre sous la houle piquante des sourcil, un teint de rose, c'était lui, Heinrich Maria Ledig Rowholt." D. R.

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Charles Watson Speaks Out: formerly "Manson's Right-Hand Man Speaks Out!" by Charles "Tex" Watson (305 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Charles Watson Speaks Out is an interview with Charles Watson, covering ten intriguing subjects chapter by chapter. It provides something for everyone, including factual information for the historian, counsel for parents in raising successful children, research assistance for students, and answers for teenagers. Those searching will find the Truth and see at last how to stop the pain.

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Imagining Coonawarra by Andrew Caillard (Hardie Grant Books) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

IMAGINING COONAWARRA is more than the story of one of South Australia's most renowned wine regions. It is the story John Riddoch's pioneering spirit, resilience and agricultural ambition. From the fledgling beginnings of his Penola Fruit Colony to the advent of modern mechanisation and finally, Wynns Coonnawarra Estate's tribute John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon, this book is the culmination of more than 130 years of Australian fine wine.

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs