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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Fighting evil is a hobby, fending off marriage-minded women—a chore.
When Lord Charles Percy seizes a highwayman robbing a carriage in broad daylight, he conceals his identity to the debutante he rescues. It wouldn't do for her to know a member of the peerage is secretly in pursuit of the infamous Black Diamond. Instead, he claims to be a mere mister who happened along perchance at an opportune moment.
Despite the fact she's a woman, the Honorable...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill speaks with Author and historian Steve Fraser about provisions in the new spending bill, drafted by Citigroup, that expand the amount of campaign donations wealthy donors can give, and lets banks off the hook for gambling with customer (and taxpayer) money. Fraser compares our current age with the First Gilded Age when people rose in rebellion against the powers that be. Today we do not see "that enormous...
Author
Series
Shadow children volume 4
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In a future world of false identities, government lies, and death threats, Luke feels drawn to the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken.
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Language
English
Description
Europe, 1916. Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Matthias Schweighöfer) is, at the age of just 24, the crack pilot of the German aerial combat forces - a legend in his own time, a hero at home and a man both feared and respected by the enemy, including Allied Forces' Canadian pilot Captain Roy Brown (Joseph Fiennes). Von Richthofen and his fellow officers, Lieutenants Voss (Til Schweiger), Sternberg (Maxim Mehmet), and Lehmann (Hanno Koffler), see their...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Newspaper publishers played a crucial role in transforming Texas into a modern state. By promoting expanded industrialization and urbanization, as well as a more modern image of Texas as a southwestern, rather than southern, state, news barons in the early decades of the twentieth century laid the groundwork for the enormous economic growth and social changes that followed World War II. Yet their contribution to the modernization of Texas is largely
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II "A landmark in the political history of journalism."--Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party As World War II approached, the six most powerful media moguls in America and Britain tried to pressure their countries to ignore the fascist threat. The media empires of Robert McCormick, Joseph and Eleanor Patterson, and...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
Haru, una niña aburrida de su ordinaria rutina, salva la vida de un gato muy inusual y con ello su mundo se transforma más allá de lo que jamás imaginó. El Rey de los Gatos recompensa su buena acción con un sinnúmero de regalos, incluyendo una propuesta de matrimonio del gatuno Príncipe! Haru emprende un viaje inesperado al Reino de los Gatos, donde sus ojos se abren a un nuevo mundo y su destino es incierto. Para cambiar su fortuna, tendrá...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men played at a crucial time in United States history, from westward expansion in the 1840s, through the Civil War, and into the dawn of the Gilded Age. Through personal drive and fueled by bloodshed, they helped propel the young country into the forefront of the...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013], c2010
Language
English
Description
Why are some people able to indulge in gambling as harmless fun while others become addicted? In this program Dr. Mark Griffiths, an expert in the psychology of gambling, explains the methodology behind his 1994 case study "The Role of Cognitive Bias and Skill in Fruit Machine Gambling." Focusing on possible differences between regular and irregular gamblers, Griffiths looks at what happens when people draw conclusions from what they want to believe...
Pub. Date
[1917]
Language
English
Description
Manfred von Richthofen was a Prussian cavalry officer at the outbreak of World War I. Frustrated with the dull, deadly grind of trench warfare, he transferred to the German Imperial Air Service. Between 1916 and 1918, Richthofen amassed 80 combat victories. Known as the "Red Baron" because he flew red planes in combat, Richthofen became such a national symbol that German authorities worried that his death would lower morale. He was finally shot down...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons-most notably Elon Musk...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get--and sell--the story. In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world's attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole, sparking a vicious feud that was unprecedented in international...
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