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A Rebel to His Last Breath

Joseph McCabe and Rationalism

By: Bill Cooke

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A Rebel to His Last Breath

Joseph McCabe and Rationalism

By: Bill Cooke

This is the first biography of Joseph McCabe (1867-1955), a former Catholic preist who became one of the best-known champions and a prolific popularizer of freethought and rationalism in the first half of the 20th century. McCabe's encyclopedic curiosity, rigorous scholarship, and above all his unswerving intellectual honesty led him through a tumultuous career of public lecturing and debating, and an incredible output of over 200 books. He tackled the most controversial issues of the modern era: evolution, biblical errancy, belief in God, immorality, spiritualism, capitalism vs. socialism, women's rights, and many other topics. Much of his writing was published in the form of the "Little Blue Books" by E. Haldeman-Julius, who declared McCabe to be "the world's greatest scholar." Today in our postmodern period, where Enlightenment values are being questioned and irrationalism in many guises has become fashionable, McCabe's gift for rational inquiry, respect for scientific evidence, and lucid, no-nonsense prose are both relevant and welcome.

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Prometheus Books

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1615927492

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Operation Long Jump

Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Greatest Assassination Plot in History

By: Bill Yenne

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Operation Long Jump

Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Greatest Assassination Plot in History

By: Bill Yenne

In the middle of World War II, Nazi military intelligence discovered a seemingly easy way to win the war for Adolf Hitler. The three heads of the Allied forces—Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin—were planning to meet in Tehran in October, 1943. Under Hitler's personal direction, the Nazis launched “Operation Long Jump,” an intricate plan to track the Allied leaders in Tehran and assassinate all three men at the same time. “I suppose it would make a pretty good haul if they could get all three of us,” Roosevelt later said. Historian Bill Yenne retells the incredible, globe-spanning story of the most ambitious assassination plot ever thwarted in Operation Long Jump.

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Simon and Schuster

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1621574407

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9781621574408

Facing the Nazi Past

United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich

By: Bill Niven

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Facing the Nazi Past

United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich

By: Bill Niven

Facing the Nazi Past examines how the communist East viewed the events of these years very differently from West Germany during the Cold War. Following the unification of Germany, these contrasting memories of the Third Reich have contributed to a new perspective on this period of German history. Facing the Nazi Past explores the developments and debates that were symptomatic of this shift towards a more open confrontation with the past, such as: * the image of resistance to Hitler in united Germany * changes at concentration camp memorial sites since 1990 * the commemoration of 8 May 1945 in 1995 * how the revelations in Goldhagen's startling book Hitler's Willing Executioners triggered new discussion * the plans for the construction of a Holocaust Memorial. Anyone; students, scholars or interested readers, who are involved in the study of European history, will find this an enthralling and informative read.

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Routledge

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1134575505

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Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

By: John Grasso,Bill Mallon,Jeroen Heijmans

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Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

By: John Grasso,Bill Mallon,Jeroen Heijmans

The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the form of an athletic festival. The recorded history of the Ancient Olympic Games begins in 776 B.C., although it is suspected that the Games had been held for several centuries by that time. The Games were conducted as religious celebrations in honor of the god Zeus, and it is known that Olympia was a shrine to Zeus from about 1000 B.C. In modern time The Olympic Movement attempts to bring all the nations of the world together in a series of multisport festivals, the Olympic Games, seeking to use sport as a means to promote internationalism and peace. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of The Olympic Movement covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on the history, philosophy, and politics of the Olympics, major organizations, the various sports, the participating countries, and especially the athletes. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about The Olympic Movement.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442248602

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Treacherous Passage

Germany’s Secret Plot Against the United States in Mexico During World War I

By: Bill Mills

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Treacherous Passage

Germany’s Secret Plot Against the United States in Mexico During World War I

By: Bill Mills

While the Great War raged across the trench-lined battlefields of Europe, a hidden conflict took place in the distant hinterlands of the turbulent Mexican Republic. German officials and secret-service operatives plotted to bring war to the United States through an array of schemes and strategies, from training a German-Mexican army for a cross-border invasion, to dispatching saboteurs to disrupt American industry, and planning for submarine bases on the western coast of Mexico. Bill Mills tells the true story of the most audacious of these operations: the German plot to launch clandestine sea raiders from the Mexican port of Mazatlán to disrupt Allied merchant shipping in the Pacific. The scheme led to a desperate struggle between German and American secret agents in Mexico. German consul Fritz Unger, the director of a powerful trading house, plotted to obtain a salvaged Mexican gunboat to supply U-boats operating off Mexico and to seize a hapless tramp schooner to help hunt Allied merchantmen. Unger’s efforts were opposed by a colorful array of individuals, including a trusted member of the German secret service in Mexico who was also the top American spy, the U.S. State Department’s senior officer in Mazatlán, the hard-charging commander of a navy gunboat, and a draft-dodging American informant in the enemy camp. Full of drama and intrigue, Treacherous Passage is the first complete account of the daring German attempts to raid Allied shipping from Mexico in 1918. Purchase the audio edition.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1612348548

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Samurai and Supermen

National Socialist Views of Japan

By: Bill Maltarich

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Samurai and Supermen

National Socialist Views of Japan

By: Bill Maltarich

Focusing on the ideological contradictions inherent in the German alliance with Japan during World War II, this book analyses German discourse about Japan from the distinct yet intricately connected standpoints of the German-Japanese historical relationship, the scientific and pseudo-scientific presentation of Japan in Germany, and German fictional depictions of Japan. The volume examines the historical relationship between Germany and Japan in the light of their alliance. It also traces the origins and development of the image of Japan in Nazi Germany. Through non-fiction texts, the points of emphasis, friction, and outright contradiction are discovered between Nazi ideology and an alliance with Japan as they were discussed both publicly and privately in Germany at the time. Finally, by examining fictional depictions of Japan and the Japanese under the Nazis, the work reveals the means by which fiction addressed these ideological issues and incorporated the historical and non-fictional arguments of its contemporaries. This book looks carefully at its connection to other historical, political, racial, and ideological thought of the time.

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Peter Lang

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3039103032

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"Some Big Bourgeois Brothel"

Contexts for France's Culture Wars with Hollywood

By: Bill Grantham

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"Some Big Bourgeois Brothel"

Contexts for France's Culture Wars with Hollywood

By: Bill Grantham

Examines Franco-American cinema relations, and France's periodic attempts to curb Hollywood's access to the French market. The text's major focus is the French influence - and American reaction to - the European Union's "Television Without Frontiers" directive and the 1993 GATT talks in Uruguay.

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Indiana University Press

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1860205356

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Under Their Thumb

How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell About It)

By: Bill German

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Under Their Thumb

How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell About It)

By: Bill German

At age sixteen, Bill German began publishing a Rolling Stones fanzine out of his bedroom in Brooklyn. And when he presented an issue to the band on a street in New York, he obviously made an impression: before he knew it, the Stones had hired him to document their career, inviting him in to the studio and to their private jam sessions. He traveled the world with them, stayed at their homes, and, for almost two decades, witnessed their wild parties and nasty feuds. Yet through it all, he never lost his identity as that “nice boy from Brooklyn.” Under Their Thumb is a fish-out-of-water tale about a fan who wanted to know everything about his favorite rock group—and suddenly learned too much. This updated edition, published to mark the Stones’ sixtieth anniversary, features forty new pages of text and more than thirty never-before-seen photos.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493065092

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Aunt Ruby's Green Tomato

By: Bill Landis

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Aunt Ruby's Green Tomato

By: Bill Landis

A professor of nutrition leaves his office and heads into the fields of a local farm to dig deeper into the reality of his food. With the help of several of his students, he films his experience chronicling the life of a tomato plant, from seed to harvest, on a small family farm. He is introduced to farm life at quirky Eco Farm by “Big John,” the rock star farmer. Over the course of one summer, he is schooled on the ways of organic agriculture, the sex life of the tomato, is introduced to the enigmatic world of heirloom tomatoes, and ponders the spiritual life of plants and the miracle of a seed. Told with humor and personal anecdotes from his food upbringing in New Jersey in the 1960s, he takes a fresh look at the changes in the American dietary landscape over the last half-century, and attempts to salvage a connection to his food. Upon visiting a tomato seed company in western North Carolina, he learns of a unique heirloom tomato - Aunt Ruby’s German Green – a rare, green-when-ripe variety. He decides to track down the story behind “Aunt Ruby” and her backyard tomato treasure, hidden from the world for most of her life. What starts out as a straightforward plan to learn more about where his food comes from, takes him on a journey of self-discovery that leaves him questioning his core assumptions about nutrition and the very essence of food, finally finding clarity by way of an elderly woman from a little town in Tennessee and her unusual tomato.

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The Origins and Evolution of the Single Market in Europe

By: Bill Lucarelli

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The Origins and Evolution of the Single Market in Europe

By: Bill Lucarelli

First published in 1999, this work of economic history explores the evolution of the single market and of economic and political integration in Europe since World War II. Beginning with European integration and the genesis of the Customs Union, Bill Lucarelli then proceeds through the Trans-Atlantic Rivalry, the European Monetary Union (EMU) the European Monetary System (EMS) and on to Maastricht. The study intends to be a critique of the prevailing theories of negative integration, weighting economic integration against political integration, with a particular focus on the concept of ‘spill-over’. Lucarelli argues against prevailing functionalist and neo-liberal interpretations of the process of economic integration. The conclusion is critical of the strategy toward European Monetary Union. The book is informed by Marxian and Post-Keynesian Economic theories.

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Routledge

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0429810903

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National and Transnational Memories of the Kindertransport

Exhibitions, Memorials, and Commemorations

By: Amy Williams,William Niven

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National and Transnational Memories of the Kindertransport

Exhibitions, Memorials, and Commemorations

By: Amy Williams,William Niven

The first transnational study of the memory of the Kindertransport and the first to explore how it is represented in museums, memorials, and commemorations.The Kindertransport, the rescue of ca. 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi sphere of control and influence before the Second World War, has often been framed as a "British story." This book recognizes that even though most of the "Kinder" were initially brought to the UK and many stayed, it was more than that. It therefore compares British memory of the Kindertransport to that of other host nations (the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). It is the first book to ask how the Kindertransport is remembered both in the countries of origin, particularly Germany, and in the host nations, as well as the first to analyze how it is represented in museums, memorials, and commemorations. Seeing memory of the Kindertransport in the host nations and in Germany as significantly different, the study argues that the different national memory discourses around the Nazi persecution of Jews shape the respective countries' images of the Kindertransport, and that those images in turn shape the discourses - especially in Britain. Yet while national memory frameworks remain crucial to how the Kindertransport is remembered, the book also documents the increasing significance of transnational memory trends that link the host nations with each other and with the countries fzi persecution of Jews shape the respective countries' images of the Kindertransport, and that those images in turn shape the discourses - especially in Britain. Yet while national memory frameworks remain crucial to how the Kindertransport is remembered, the book also documents the increasing significance of transnational memory trends that link the host nations with each other and with the countries from which the children originated.zi persecution of Jews shape the respective countries' images of the Kindertransport, and that those images in turn shape the discourses - especially in Britain. Yet while national memory frameworks remain crucial to how the Kindertransport is remembered, the book also documents the increasing significance of transnational memory trends that link the host nations with each other and with the countries from which the children originated.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1640141308

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9781640141308

Labour Export Policy in the Development of Southern Africa

By: Bill Paton

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Labour Export Policy in the Development of Southern Africa

By: Bill Paton

The book's broad theme is that the evolution of the power to control labour flows among different territorial jurisdictions was of major importance in the formation of a system of states. Labour export policy in eight countries in Southern Africa is examined over roughly the century 1890-1990 in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The proportion of the total population absent working in another country is graphed for each, and combined, over the same period.

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Springer

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1349134996

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Defining IT Success Through The Service Catalog

By: Bill Fine,Rodrigo Flores,Troy DuMoulin

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Defining IT Success Through The Service Catalog

By: Bill Fine,Rodrigo Flores,Troy DuMoulin

The Service Catalog is a fundamental IT tool covering the services themselves, default capabilities, measures and primary means of access and provision. In short, it represents the value IT provides to facilitate business operations. Written by industry experts and using real case studies, this valuable title takes the reader beyond the theoretical to focus on the real business benefits of Service Catalogs and how to implement them successfully within an organization: Services are made standard and rational, leading to lower costs and increased service availability Standard service products enable forecasting of demand, leading to better volume discounts from vendors and improved inventory and capacity planning Controls over consumption of services are enhanced The fulfillment of IT services is improved with the catalog. Standardization of services leads to recurrent workflows, rather than relatively expensive one-off projects

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Van Haren

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9401801169

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9789401801164

The Bronx

In Bits and Pieces

By: Bill Twomey

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The Bronx

In Bits and Pieces

By: Bill Twomey

If you have ever been curious as to why there is a the in the Bronx or how the borough came to be named, look no further. Bill Twomey reveals the ins and outs of Bronx history as no one else can, and he does it in over 200 stories so you can read as much or as little as you like whether you have a few moments or a few hours. Find out the origins of the various communities of the borough and the stories of the many celebrities and interesting people who call the Bronx home. Whether you came from West Farms, Hunts Point, Glason Point, Throggs Neck, or Riverdale, there are stories here to entertain and educate you. Freedomland, Parkchester, Fort Schuyler, the Concourse, Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Zoo, and tales of old Baychester will remind you of a bygone era. No community is left out of the fascinating book that will make you the guru of all things Bronx.

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1600080626

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Resisting the European Court of Justice

West Germany's Confrontation with European Law, 1949-1979

By: Bill Davies

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Resisting the European Court of Justice

West Germany's Confrontation with European Law, 1949-1979

By: Bill Davies

Investigates how the fundamental transformations in the European legal system were received in one of the most important European Union member states, Germany.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107024536

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Colonisation and Conflict 1750-1990

By: Martin Collier,Bill Marriott

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Colonisation and Conflict 1750-1990

By: Martin Collier,Bill Marriott

Aiming to provide challenge and stimulus for more able pupils, the "Headstart in History" books have high narrative content; extended writing opportunities and suggestions for further research; and links to websites, videos and historical fiction.

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Heinemann

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0435323040

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Crusoe's Books

Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918

By: Bill Bell

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Crusoe's Books

Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918

By: Bill Bell

This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War. What was the role of reading in extreme circumstances? How were new meanings made under strange skies? How was reading connected with mobile communities in an age of expansion? Uncovering a vast range of sources from the period, from diaries, periodicals, and literary culture, Bill Bell reveals some remarkable and unanticipated insights into the way that reading operated within and upon the British Empire for over a century.

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Oxford University Press

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0192894692

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9780192894694

Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics

By: Jill Jegerski,Bill VanPatten

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Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics

By: Jill Jegerski,Bill VanPatten

Addressing a rapidly growing interest in second language research, this hands-on text provides students and researchers with the means to understand and use current methods in psycholinguistics. With a focus on the actual methods, designs, and techniques used in psycholinguistics research as they are applied to second language learners, this book offers the practical guidance readers need to determine which method is the best for what they wish to investigate as well as the tools that will enhance their research. Each methods chapter is written by a leading expert who describes, discusses, and comments on how a method is used and what its strengths and limitations are for second language research. These chapters follow a specific format to ensure cohesion and a predictable structure across all chapters. The chapters also inform the novice researcher on such key issues as ease of use, costs, potential pitfalls, and other related matters, each of which impact decisions that researchers make about the paths they take. With the most reliable information available from experienced reseachers, Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics is an essential resource for anyone interested in conducting second language reserach using psycholinguistic methods.

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Routledge

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1136339132

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Proceedings of the First Conference of the Construction History Society

By: James Campbell,Nicholas Bill,Karey Draper,Patrick Fleming,Yiting Pan,Wendy Andrews

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Proceedings of the First Conference of the Construction History Society

By: James Campbell,Nicholas Bill,Karey Draper,Patrick Fleming,Yiting Pan,Wendy Andrews

The proceedings of the first conference of the Construction History Society, which took place on 11 and 12 April 2014 at Queens' College, Cambridge, featuring 48 peer-reviewed papers covering a wide variety of subjects on the theme of construction history.

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Lulu.com

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0992875102

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9780992875107

Not Without Honor

The Nazi POW Journal of Steve Carano; With Accounts by John C. Bitzer and Bill Blackmon

By: Steve Carano,John C. Bitzer,Bill Blackmon

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Not Without Honor

The Nazi POW Journal of Steve Carano; With Accounts by John C. Bitzer and Bill Blackmon

By: Steve Carano,John C. Bitzer,Bill Blackmon

Offers a personal account of a soldier who was held for eighteen months in Stalag 17 b after his bomber was shot down over the Dutch coast and the diverse experiences he had while there that helped him keep psychologically strong enough to survive the harrowing ordeal.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557288844

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The Novel of Female Adultery

Love and Gender in Continental European Fiction, 1830–1900

By: Bill Overton

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The Novel of Female Adultery

Love and Gender in Continental European Fiction, 1830–1900

By: Bill Overton

The novel of adultery is a nineteenth-century form about the experience of women, produced almost exclusively by men. Bill Overton's study is the first to address the gender implications of this form, and the first to write its history. The opening chapter defines the terms 'adultery' and 'novel of adultery', and discusses how the form arose in Continental Europe, but failed to appear in Britain. Successive chapters deal with its development in France, and with examples from Russia, Denmark, Germany, Spain and Portugal.

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1349251739

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Lost Pulse

By: Bill Shumaker

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Lost Pulse

By: Bill Shumaker

In this thrilling story, three unlikely people attempt to rescue a small sick child who is being subjected to Hitler's genetic research in 1939 Nazi Germany. Even though the story is fictional, the historical accuracy opens a window into the darkness of the Nazi era.

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Deo Volente Publishing

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0975344609

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Back Door to Byzantium

To the Black Sea by the Great Rivers of Europe

By: Bill Cooper,Laurel Cooper

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Back Door to Byzantium

To the Black Sea by the Great Rivers of Europe

By: Bill Cooper,Laurel Cooper

This eagerly awaited conclusion to the Watersteps trilogy is the story of the Cooper's voyage from the North Sea, across flooded France, down the Rhine and on the Danube to the Black Sea.

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Sheridan House, Inc.

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1574090437

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Tarpaper Shacks and Tipple Lights

By: Bill Tabor

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Tarpaper Shacks and Tipple Lights

By: Bill Tabor

Tarpaper Shacks and Tipple Lights: The Continuing Saga of Tipple Holler By: Bill Tabor Old taxman should have stayed in the county seat. Coming to Boissevain Coal Camp is the last bad mistake he’ll ever make, especially for a crooked bureaucrat with his fingers in the collections. Meanwhile the miner’s union has decided to do something about their organizer’s killing and his missing assistant. They send a specialist to solve their issues, a specialist you will never forget. With a host of coal camp residents looking on, page by page, murder, mayhem, and mining continues. Come with us to Boissevain, Virginia in 1912.

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Dorrance Publishing

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Operation Cobra and the Great Offensive

Sixty Days That Changed the Course of World War II

By: Bill Yenne

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Operation Cobra and the Great Offensive

Sixty Days That Changed the Course of World War II

By: Bill Yenne

From an acclaimed writer of military history comes a stunning account of the 60 days following the Allied breakout from Normandy to the liberation of Paris. black-and-white photos. Original.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743458826

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9780743458825

Fast Easy Way to Learn a Language

By: Bill Handley

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Fast Easy Way to Learn a Language

By: Bill Handley

Fast, Easy Way to Learn a Language is essential reading for anyone studying a language at school, for business, travel or just for pleasure. Well-known inspirational teacher Bill Handley speaks 15 languages at various degrees of fluency. He is passionate about learning languages and believes language learning should be an adventure. In this book he explains: how to have fun building your vocabulary in record time the easy way to get to grips with grammar why you should use more than one textbook how to use your 'lost time' to learn faster what to do when you feel like giving up how to write your own 'survival skills' course. Fast Easy Way to Learn a Language will have you speaking your new language in no time. The book explores all the important topics: active and passive learning, mastering a different alphabet, using recorded material, planning your own immersion program, making effective use of the internet and much more. It includes special advice for school and university students. This is the fun way to learn a language.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118303792

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One Summer

America, 1927

By: Bill Bryson

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One Summer

America, 1927

By: Bill Bryson

A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book A GoodReads Reader's Choice In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop, and when he landed in Le Bourget airfield near Paris, he ignited an explosion of worldwide rapture and instantly became the most famous person on the planet. Meanwhile, the titanically talented Babe Ruth was beginning his assault on the home run record, which would culminate on September 30 with his sixtieth blast, one of the most resonant and durable records in sports history. In between those dates a Queens housewife named Ruth Snyder and her corset-salesman lover garroted her husband, leading to a murder trial that became a huge tabloid sensation. Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly sat atop a flagpole in Newark, New Jersey, for twelve days—a new record. The American South was clobbered by unprecedented rain and by flooding of the Mississippi basin, a great human disaster, the relief efforts for which were guided by the uncannily able and insufferably pompous Herbert Hoover. Calvin Coolidge interrupted an already leisurely presidency for an even more relaxing three-month vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The gangster Al Capone tightened his grip on the illegal booze business through a gaudy and murderous reign of terror and municipal corruption. The first true “talking picture,” Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer, was filmed and forever changed the motion picture industry. The four most powerful central bankers on earth met in secret session on a Long Island estate and made a fateful decision that virtually guaranteed a future crash and depression. All this and much, much more transpired in that epochal summer of 1927, and Bill Bryson captures its outsized personalities, exciting events, and occasional just plain weirdness with his trademark vividness, eye for telling detail, and delicious humor. In that year America stepped out onto the world stage as the main event, and One Summer transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.

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0385537824

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Hitler's Master of the Dark Arts

Himmler's Black Knights and the Occult Origins of the SS

By: Bill Yenne

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Hitler's Master of the Dark Arts

Himmler's Black Knights and the Occult Origins of the SS

By: Bill Yenne

A history of Nazi Germany’s SS and its leader examining the groups mystical cult aspects and Himmler’s rise through the ranks of power. Hitler’s Nazi Party, at its evil roots, embraced a bizarre interpretation of ancient European paganism, blending it with fragments of other traditions from sources as diverse as tenth-century Saxon warlords, nineteenth-century spiritualism, and early-twentieth-century fringe archeology. Even the swastika, the hated symbol of Nazism, had its roots in ancient symbolism, its first recorded appearance carved into a mammoth tusk twelve thousand years before Hitler came to power. At the heart of the evil was Hitler’s “witch doctor,” Heinrich Himmler, and his stranger-than-fiction cult, the deadly SS. The mundanely named Schutzstaffel, literally “protective squadron,” was the very essence of Nazism, and their threatening double lightning bolt was one of the most dreaded symbols of the Third Reich. With good reason: what the SS was truly protecting was the ideology of Aryan superiority. Hitler’s Master of the Dark Arts is the first history of the SS and its leader to focus on the mystical cult aspects of the organization. It follows Himmler’s transformation of the SS from a few hundred members in 1929 to over fifty thousand black-uniformed Aryans by the mid-1930s. Concurrent with its expansion and its eventual independence from the brown shirts of the SA, Himmler infused the Black Knights with a mishmash of occult beliefs and lunatic-fringe theories that would have been completely laughable—except that they were also used to justify the Final Solution.

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Quarto Publishing Group USA

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1610600738

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9781610600736

101 Stumbles in the March of History

What If the Great Mistakes in War, Government, Industry, and Economics Were Not Made?

By: Bill Fawcett

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101 Stumbles in the March of History

What If the Great Mistakes in War, Government, Industry, and Economics Were Not Made?

By: Bill Fawcett

An all-new compendium of 101 historic screw-ups from the author of 100 Mistakes that Changed History. DID I DO THAT??? When asked to name a successor, Alexander the Great declared that his empire should go “to the strongest”. . . but would rival factions have descended into war if he’d been a little more specific? What if the Vienna Academy of Art took a chance on a hopeful young student named Adolf Hitler? If Pope Clement VII granted King Henry VIII an annulment, England would likely still be Catholic today—and so would America. Bill Fawcett, author of 100 Mistakes That Changed History, offers a compendium of 101 all-new mammoth mistakes—from the ill-fated rule of Emperor Darius III to the equally ill-fated search for WMDs in Iraq—that will, unfortunately, never be forgotten by history.

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Penguin

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1101987057

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9781101987056

Surviving Trench Warfare

Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918, Second Edition

By: Bill Rawling

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Surviving Trench Warfare

Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918, Second Edition

By: Bill Rawling

The horrors of the First World War were the product of a new and unprecedented type of industrial warfare. To survive and win demanded not just new technology but the techniques to use it effectively. In Surviving Trench Warfare, Bill Rawling takes a close look at how technology and tactics came together in the Canadian Corps. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from interviews to staff reports, Rawling describes the range of new weapons that the Canadians adopted, including tanks, trench mortars, and poison gas, making it clear that the decisive factor in the war was not the new technology itself but how the Canadians responded to it. Only through intensive training, specialization, and close coordination between infantry and artillery could the Canadians overcome the deadly trinity of machine-guns, barbed wire, and artillery. Surviving Trench Warfare offers a whole new understanding of the First World War, replacing the image of a static trench war with one in which soldiers actively struggled for control over their weapons and their environment, and achieved it. Released to coincide with the centenary of the First World War, this edition includes a new introduction and afterword reflecting the latest scholarship on the conduct of the war.

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University of Toronto Press

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144262020X

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9781442620209

Lies, Love, Blood

By: Bill Fairbairn

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Lies, Love, Blood

By: Bill Fairbairn

Lies, Love, Blood is living proof of duplicity craving wrath. Heed this cautionary tale as we track rascal and scholar Daiga, his loyal, faithful bride-in-waiting Mungwi, and his duped and deserted wife Monica in their three-ring circus of intrigue, passion and despair along Cameroon and Germany’s cultural crossroads. It drives home with a vengeance this timeless truth of war and wedlock: “We must love one another or die.” W.H. Auden

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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168562636X

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Treachery

How America's Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies

By: Bill Gertz

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Treachery

How America's Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies

By: Bill Gertz

In the stunning New York Times bestseller Treachery, Bill Gertz blows the lid off the dirty dealings of our so-called allies. Gertz’s groundbreaking reporting exposes how France, Germany, Russia, and other “friends” of the United States have armed the world’s most dangerous tyrants and terrorists—putting Americans directly in the line of fire. And in a brand-new chapter based on classified intelligence reports, Gertz documents how the treachery continues unchecked. Plus, for the first time ever, he reveals the complete story on what happened to Saddam Hussein’s weapons—a shocking account that will change the way you look at the dangers in the Middle East.

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Forum Books

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1400082013

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9781400082018

West River

A Story of the Badlands, the Black Hills, and the Last Pioneers

By: Bill Bishop

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West River

A Story of the Badlands, the Black Hills, and the Last Pioneers

By: Bill Bishop

West River is a tale of the last pioneers on America's western frontier and the lessons they learned. Growing up on his father's Badlands homestead, Bill Barton chases his boyhood dream of one day staking his own homestead claim in the Black Hills. Bill learns that dreams, no matter how hard a man may struggle to make them come true, can turn to dust before his very eyes. Losing everything, Bill comes to accept that a man needs to take life as it comes and make of it what he can. Born into hard times, Bill's daughter Velda grows up learning how to make do and do without. Never backing down, Velda fights for her place in the world, while the Barton family struggles with the harsh realities of poverty amidst the daunting challenges of draught and depression. The sudden outbreak of world war transforms the Barton family and their fortunes. With a victorious America emerging as the leader of a new world order, the Barton family is left to ponder the deeper meaning of America's newfound prosperity, its outsized role in the world, and whether future generations will be willing to stay the course and pay the price.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666712396

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9781666712391

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