EMPIRES OF LIGHT random house
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to creat...
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OUT OF BOUNDS harpercollins usa
We are the young people, We will not be broken! For almost fifty years, apartheid forced the young people of South Africa to live apart as Blacks, Whites, Indians, and "Coloreds." This unique and dram...
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MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA random house
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when...
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BRAZILIAN POPULAR MUSIC & GLOBALIZATION routledge
BRAZILIAN POPULAR MUSIC & GLOBALIZATION
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UNDERSTANDING POPULAR MUSIC CULTURE - 3ª EDITION routledge
UNDERSTANDING POPULAR MUSIC CULTURE - 3ª EDITION
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AGE OF REVOLUTION, THE - 1749 - 1848 penguin books
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphorist...
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THE LORDS OF THE NORTH harpercollins usa
The year is 878. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, has helped the Saxons of Wessex defeat the invading Danes. Now, finally free of his allegiance to the victorious, ungrateful King ...
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CAPITAIN UNDERPANTS AND THE REVOLTING REVENGE OF THE RADIOACTIVE ROBO-BOXERS scholastic
When we last saw our heroes, George and Harold, they had been turned into evil zombie nerds doomed to roam a devastated, postapocalyptic planet for all eternity. But why, you might ask, didn´t the ama...
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SCHOLASTIC DISCOVER MORE - DINOSAURS scholastic
A new generation of reference books for kids used to surfing and swiping. Within the last five years, more has been discovered about dinosaurs than ever before. By commissioning brand new digital imag...
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THE BOOK OF GUTSY WOMEN simon & schuster
Celebrating the women who have inspired them throughout their lives, THE BOOK OF GUTSY WOMEN will feature portraits of more than 100 women, celebrating the histories that all too often get overlooked ...
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THE PIONEERS - THE HEROIC STORY OF THE SETTLERS WHO BROUGHT THE AMERICAN IDEAL WEST simon & schuster
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredi...
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KOCHLAND - THE SECRET HISTORY OF KOCH INDUSTRIES AND CORPORATE POWER IN AMERICA simon & schuster
Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extra...
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UPROOTED - THE JAPANESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE DURING WORLD WAR II random house
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Booklist Editor´s Choice On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor comes a harrowing and enlightening look at the internment of Japanese Ameri...
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IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY - THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF SLAVERY, FOUR PRESIDENTS, AND FIVE BLACK LIVES henry holt & co
Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers?who fought for liberty and justice for all?were slave owners? Through the powerful stories of five enslaved people who were “owned” by four of our...
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THE STORY BEHIND - THE EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY BEHIND ORDINARY OBJECTS follet us
#1 Best Seller in Trivia & Fun Facts - The Surprising History of Ordinary Things Learn the fascinating history and trivia you never knew about things we use daily from the host of The Story Behind pod...
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THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS - THE EPIC STORY OF AMERICA´S GREAT MIGRATION random house
In the tradition of works by Nicolas Lemann and J. Anthony Lukas, this magnificent epic by Isabel Wilkerson chronicles a watershed event in American history--the decades-long migration of African-Amer...
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HISTORY OF THE WORLD MAP BY MAP dorling kindersley
More than 140 detailed maps tell the story of pivotal episodes in world history, from the first human migrations out of Africa to the space race. Custom regional and global maps present the history o...
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FIDEL CASTRO blackwell
Fidel Castro is one of the most interesting and controversial personalities of our time – he has become a myth and an icon. He was the first Cuban Caudillo – the man who freed his country from depende...
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100 SCIENTISTS WHO MADE HISTORY dorling kindersley
rom brainy biologists and clever chemists to magnificent mathematicians and phenomenal physicists. Discover 100 remarkable scientists who shaped our world. Containing a universe of knowledge, this ...
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THE U.S. CONSTITUTION - 2ND EDITION dorling kindersley
One of the most revered, imitated, and controversial governmental documents in the world, the U.S. Constitution serves as the foundation for the American government and shapes the lives of Americans e...
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NOW I SIT ME DOWN - FROM KLISMOS TO PLASTIC CHAIR: A NATURAL HISTORY farrar, straus and giroux
A grand tour of the chair through the ages by our foremost writer on design Have you ever wondered where rocking chairs came from, or why cheap plastic chairs are suddenly everywhere? In Now I Sit M...
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THE FIGHTERS KITCHEN - 100 MUSCLE-BUILDING, FAT BURNING RECIPES, WITH MEAL PLANS TO SCULPT YOUR WARRIOR dorling kindersley
00 muscle-building, fat-burning recipes, with meal plans to sculpt your warrior body Ever wonder how professional MMA fighters in the UFC prepare their bodies for fights? The real training often star...
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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR dorling kindersley
Explore the fascinating history of Americas bloodiest ever conflict. Combining expert historical insight with the eyewitness accounts of soldiers and civilians, A Short History of the Civil War offe...
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF - THE FIRST WORLD WAR - THREE VOLUME SET cambridge university
The Cambridge History of the First World War is a comprehensive, three-volume work, which provides an authoritative account of the military, political, social, economic and cultural history of the Gre...
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF - THE FIRST WORLD WAR - VOLUME 1 - GLOBAL WAR cambridge university
This first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war´s military history. An international team of leading historians charts how a war made poss...
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF - THE FIRST WORLD WAR - VOLUME 2 - THE STATE cambridge university
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of the state. It explores the multifaceted ...
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF - THE FIRST WORLD WAR - VOLUME 3 - CIVIL SOCIETY cambridge university
Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those insti...
LION & THE MOUSE, THE (PUPIL´S BOOK) express publishing
The well-known story which shows how help can sometimes come from unexpected sources.
THE NIGHTINGALE & THE ROSE (PUPIL´S BOOK) express publishing
How can the nightingale help a young man win the heart of a beautiful girl?
CONCISE HISTORY OF BRAZIL, A - 2ND ED cambridge university
The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America´s largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil´s history from the arrival of the Portuguese...
A HISTORY OF PORTUGAL AND THE PORTUGUESE EMPIRE - FROM BEGINNINGS TO 1807 - VOL. 1 cambridge usa
The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d’être and no obvious political roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts,...
BANKRUPTCY OF EMPIRE - MEXICAN SILVER AND THE WARS BETWEEN SPAIN, BRITAIN AND FRANCE, 1760-1810 cambridge usa
This book emphasizes that the Spanish empire remained the third most important European state in terms of fiscal income and naval power, and first in size of territorial empire, particularly because o...
