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Thrilling Wonder Adventure Stories
A 15 Ebook Boxset
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In the tradition of the pulp magazines the Thrilling Wonder Adventure bundle offers you a wide range of short science fiction by some of today's best writers. You will discover alternate realities, strange aliens, meet super humans transformed by aliens, a time traveling oak tree, meet the end of...
No Slam Dunk
Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress toward gender equity in sports is far from complete. The continuing barriers to full and equal participation for young people, the far lower pay for most...
Business Law Basics
Learn What You Need in 2 Hours
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
When you start a business, legal issues can seem complex, even scary. Business Law Basics will help you ask smart questions and get the right advice. This simple guide will show you everything you need to know about:
How to choose an attorney.
Contract essentials, including patents and...
Tinged with Gold
Hop Culture in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Today hop growing remains a viable commercial enterprise only in parts of the far western United States—notably in Washington. But, as James Fenimore Cooper remembered, the mid-nineteenth century in Cooperstown, New York, was a time when "the 'hop was king,' and the whole countryside was one...
Mayor
The Best Job in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
In 2007, after serving almost fifteen years on the Philadelphia City Council, Michael A. Nutter became the ninety-eighth mayor of his hometown of Philadelphia. From the time he was sworn in until he left office in 2016, there were triumphs and challenges, from the mundane to the unexpected, from snow...
At the Helm: Volume 4: A Sci-Fi Bridge Anthology
At The Helm, #4
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Conflict across the cosmos. New frontiers discovered. What it means to be human reimagined.
Dreams of tomorrow become reality in this fourth collection of bestselling authors and newly emerging writers from Sci-Fi Bridge. From the inner worlds of unforgettable characters to alien planets at...
by James Luceno, Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The Star Wars novels have been expanding the universe of this popular epic for decades. Now ten thrilling, action-packed classics have been collected in one convenient eBook bundle, a perfect introduction to the vibrant and varied eras of Star Wars history, past and future. With a rich cast of characters...
American Maelstrom
The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In his presidential inaugural address of January 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson offered an uplifting vision for America, one that would end poverty and racial injustice. Elected in a landslide over the conservative Republican Barry Goldwater and bolstered by the so-called liberal consensus, economic prosperity,...
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by Rear-Admiral Michael A. Musmanno
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust
“Fourteen officers of the SS (Elite Guard) were sentenced today to hang for at least a million killings. The sentences wound up the biggest murder trial in history.
The men were leaders of the “Einsatz Kommandos”...special...
Political Gastronomy
Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
"The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions, to submit to certain influences: from this is born political gastronomy. Meals have become a means of governing, and the fate of whole peoples is...
by Michael Ignatieff, Kwame Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolution...
Pharmakon
Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens examines the emerging concern for controlling states of psychological ecstasy in the history of western thought, focusing on ancient Greece (c. 750-146 BCE), particularly the Classical Period (c. 500-336 BCE) and especially the dialogues...
Colombia
A Concise Contemporary History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Colombia is at a historic crossroads as its leaders implement peace accords that will end an undeclared but bitter civil war that has raged for more than half a century. Building a nation at peace will require the input and collaboration of both Colombians and the world community. Yet relatively little...
The Baptist Story
From English Sect to Global Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The Baptist Story is a narrative history spanning over four centuries of a diverse group of people living among distinct cultures on separate continents while finding their identity in Christ and expressing their faith as Baptists. Baptist historians Anthony Chute, Nathan Finn, and Michael Haykin...