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DK Publishing
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2024.
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Soar into the high-flying world of aircraft with this picture-packed, fact-filled book. Eyewitness Flight is an essential guide to the history and science of humanity's most incredible feat: flying! Young readers will pour over stunning photography, alongside fascinating facts, of aircraft from Leonardo da Vinci's wing machines to jet airliners, as well as helicopters, gliders, zeppelins, monoplanes, biplanes, and even triplanes. Learn how technology...
42) I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife: African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era
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Against the backdrop of bloody battles and political maneuvering, thousands of African Americans spent the Civil War trying to hold their families together. Whether enslaved or free, they strove not only to survive but also to cultivate bonds of family, friendship, and community. This moving book illuminates that struggle through the letters exchanged by African Americans before, during, and just after the war. Despite harsh laws against literacy...
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Marcus Garvey (August 17, 1887 - June 10, 1940) was a charismatic Jamaican-born political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) and acted as its President-General. In 1916 he moved to New York City where his prominence grew. By 1919 he was considered to be the "Black Moses," and he claimed a following of over 2 million people. This...
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Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, born on March 23, 1929, is an English former athlete best known for being the first to run the mile in less than 4 minutes, remarkably while practicing as a junior doctor. This was finally achieved on May 6, 1954 at Iffley Road Track in Oxford, with Chris Chataway and Chris Brasher providing the pacing. The resulting time was 3 min 59.4 sec. Retiring from running shortly after, Bannister went on to become a distinguished...
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson, December 28, 1856 to February 3, 1924, was an American politician and academic who served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, as governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, and as US President from 1913 to 1921. In this rare recording, Wilson discusses the progressive platform of workers' rights, a minimum wage, and the connection between big business and government.
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This is a rare recording of Oliver Joseph Lodge, June 12, 1851 – August 22, 1940, a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. In addition, Lodge wrote more than 40 books, about the afterlife, aether, relativity, and electromagnetic theory.
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J.B. Rhine (1895 - 1980), widely considered to be the 'Father of Modern Parapsychology,' was the world's leading investigator of psychic phenomena, ESP and the paranormal. He founded the parapsychology research lab at Duke University and the Journal of Parapsychology. Dr. Rhine, who coined the term 'extrasensory perception' (ESP) to describe the apparent ability of some people to acquire information without the use of the known five senses), wrote...
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Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Though born with the ability to see and hear, at 19 months-old she contracted an acute illness that left her both deaf and blind. Eventually, 20-year-old Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired, became Keller's speech instructor. It was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship during which Sullivan evolved into Keller's governess and eventually her companion. In 1914, Sullivan's health...
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In these two rare recordings of Robert Baden-Powell, founder and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association and founder of the Girl Guides, he extols the virtues of the Scout movement and that Scout duties are working for God and the King, helping other people, and keeping Scout law.
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As the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud developed theories that made him one of the most influential psychologists of the last century. In this rare actual recording from 1938, Freud talks about his professional career and his escape from the Nazis at the age of 82. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan.
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This is a rare live recording of Francesco Forgione, or Padre Pio, a Capuchin priest from Italy and one of the world's most popular saints. There are more than 3,000 "Padre Pio Prayer Groups" worldwide, with over three million members. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan.
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Former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, class-conscious, but always patriotic and on the side of the underdog, it held a mirror to the audiences' hopes and fears, and sometimes the general absurdity of life. Vast, smoke-filled auditoriums were packed night...
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Created in 1942, the Navajo code talker units of the US Marine Corps relayed radio and phone messages in their native dialect during World War II combat operations. The method was fast and indecipherable to enemy eavesdroppers, as Navajo is an unwritten language of extreme complexity--with its syntax, tonal qualities and various dialects--making it unintelligible to anyone without extensive exposure and training. It has no alphabet or symbols, and...
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Pope John Paul I (born Albino Luciani). He lived from Oct. 17, 1912 to Sept 28, 1978. He reigned as Pope from August 26, 1978 to his unexpected death 33 days later. He was the first pope to have been born in the twentieth century. His reign is among the shortest in papal history. This speech is delivered in Latin.
55) Gunflint Falling
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On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging blowdown in the region's history. Gunflint Falling tells the story of this devastating storm from the perspectives of those who were on the ground before, during, and after the catastrophic event.
The forecasts in Duluth predicted the day would be "warm and humid. Partly sunny with a 30% chance of thunderstorms."...
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In the Editor's Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs a statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime there is a rapid increase of published sources and serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there...
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Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, “Out of One, Many” is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries,...
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A concise, star-studded retelling of Italy's past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence-from a foremost author of historic Italy.
The calendar. The Senate. The university. The piano, the heliocentric model, and the pizzeria. It's hard to imagine a world without Italian influence-and easy to assume that inventions like these could only come from a strong, stable peninsula,...
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“My Brother's Keeper” tells the behind-the-scenes story of how the American president and the Israeli prime minister clashed about peace, war, and the future of the region.
Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu viewed the world, and especially the Middle East, differently. The US president wanted to end what he saw as America's perpetual war against the Muslim and Arab worlds, use diplomacy to bring about a Palestinian state coexisting peacefully...
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Le 8 janvier 2020, le vol 752 d'Ukraine International Airlines reliant Téhéran à Kiev s'écrase six minutes après le décollage entraînant la mort des 176 passagers et membres d'équipage. Ce crash survient dans un contexte de tensions extrêmes entre l'Iran et les États-Unis.
À travers l'histoire de sa cousine Niloufar Sadr, présente sur ce vol, Négar Djavadi relate cette tragédie. Traumatisme national, la chute du PS752 est l'un des événements...