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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xi, 650 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Historian Chris Wickham defies conventional views of the "Dark Ages" in European history with a work of rigorous yet accessible scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of new material and featuring a thoughtful synthesis of historical and archaeological approaches, Wickham argues that these centuries were critical in the formulation of European identity. Far from being a "middle" period between more significant epochs, this age has much to tell us in its...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
Language
English
Description
The United States won its independence from Great Britain in 1783, but that didn't mean the conflicts were over. By 1812, tensions between the two countries had reached the boiling point. Why would the United States again want to wage war on a rich and powerful country? And how would it change the young nation?
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
HarperCollins and John C. Maxwell are celebrating the milestone anniversary of Maxwell's New York Times bestselling book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership with the publication of a new revised and updated 25th Anniversary Edition. Maxwell has gone through every word of this book and updated it for the next generation of leaders. He has added new insights to these timeless laws and included lessons learned since he originally wrote the book. He...
Author
Publisher
BBS PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
466 p. , [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) , map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first in their native Ghana, then as British immigrants. He brings a unique perspective and impeccable academic credentials to a narrative history of the British Empire, one that avoids sweeping judgmental condemnation and instead sees the Empire for what it was: a series of local fiefdoms administered in varying degrees of competence or brutality by...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In addition to putting an end to the inhumane institution of slavery, the Civil War also spurred important inventions that improved people's lives, such as canned food, pocket watches, federal paper currency, and standard sizes for shoes. Although medical technology lagged behind the development of new weapons that could kill and maim more soldiers than ever, there were advances in amputation techniques and anesthesia delivery. Additionally, the railroad...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gripping, multigenerational tale of a French Algerian woman, her family's past, and the legacies of colonialism"--
The Algerian War for Independence sent Naïma’s grandfather on a journey, from wealthy olive grove owner and respected veteran of the First World War, to refugee spurned as a harki by his fellow Algerians in the transit camps of southern France, to immigrant barely scratching out a living in the north. Naïma knows Algeria...
Author
Language
English
Description
Film scholar Felix Funicello from Wishin' and Hopin' is confronted by the ghost of a Hollywood silent film director who invites him to revisit scenes from his past and gain insights into the lives of three women who indelibly shaped his life.
Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater, is confronted by the ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing motion picture director from Hollywood's silent film era....
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This new edition of the most influential self-help book of the last century has been updated under the care of Dale's daughter, Donna, introducing changes that keep the book fresh for today's readers, with priceless material restored from the original 1936 text.
10) City of likes
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Megan Chernoff is a talented but unemployed copywriter in an identity crisis after the birth of her second child. Seeking a fresh start, she and her family move to New York City, where she meets Daphne Cole-a gorgeous, stylish, well-known momfluencer. To Meg's surprise and delight, Daphne shows an inordinate amount of interest in Meg, showering her with compliments, attention, gifts, and all the perks that come with having a massive digital platform....
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Life & Style
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
For single parents, working parents, and caregivers who worry about the time they spend away from their children, the mother of The Other Wes Moore shares strategies to raise happy, well-adjusted kids.
As the mother of Wes Moore, whose memoir about overcoming the obstacles that face a fatherless young black man was a huge bestseller, Joy is constantly asked: How did you do it? How can you be a good parent, have a career and stay healthy when you...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? Christian G. Appy, author of the widely praised oral history of the Vietnam War Patriots, now examines the relationship between the war's realities and myths and its impact on our national identity, conscience, pride, shame, popular culture, and postwar foreign policy.
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Moral psychologist Tess Wilkinson-Ryan examines what she calls the 'sucker construct,' the fear of being taken advantage of--of being a sucker--and its outsized role in the shaping of our lives and our world"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xvii, 377 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of The Secretary tells the gripping story of the real roots of the Sunni-Shia conflict in Middle East in the 1979 Iran Revolution that changed the region forever"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
302 p. ; 21cm.
Language
English
Description
As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world's largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world's most widely distributed book and its bestselling, with an estimated six billion copies sold in the last two hundred years. But the Bible is a complex work with a complicated and obscure history. Its contents have changed over the centuries, it has been transformed...
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xv, 268 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Andrew Carnegie laid out his principles of success to young Napoleon Hill, he inspired Hill to expand on that philosophy, leading to the bestselling Think and Grow Rich and a series of motivational pamphlets. Now, the Napoleon Hill Foundation has selected three principles from those booklets for elaboration: Self-Discipline, Learning from Defeat, and the Golden Rule"--
In 1908, Napoleon Hill met industrialist Andrew Carnegie for what he believed...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 483 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Respected arts commentator and author Paul Morley, an artistic adviser to the curators of the highly successful retrospective exhibition 'David Bowie is' for the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, constructs a definitive story of Bowie that explores how he worked, played, aged, structured his ideas, influenced others, invented the future, and entered history as someone who could and would never be forgotten. Morley captures the greatest moments...
Author
Publisher
Prospect Park Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Our heroine, a moderately successful TV writer in L.A., wants her life to be as sunny and perfect as a Hollywood rom-com: a cool job, a wacky best friend, and lots of age-appropriate hot guys just dying to date her. Instead, she's a self-described spinster who is swimming in anxiety and just might have a tiny little brain tumor. So she turns to an unlikely source for inspiration: the eighteenth-century novelist and diarist Frances Burney, who pretty...
20) The god child
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Circus
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maya grows up in Germany knowing that her parents are different: from one another, and from the rest of the world. Her reserved, studious father is distant; and her beautiful, volatile mother is a whirlwind, with a penchant for lavish shopping sprees and a mesmerising power for spinning stories of the family's former glory - of what was had, and what was lost. And then Kojo arrives one Christmas, like an annunciation: Maya's cousin, and her mother's...