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The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

By: Edward Gibbon,Francis Parkman,William H. Prescott,Theodore Roosevelt

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The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

By: Edward Gibbon,Francis Parkman,William H. Prescott,Theodore Roosevelt

Revisit a world of conquest, exploration, and imperial adventure with this Modern Library eBook bundle that includes Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Francis Parkman’s Montcalm and Wolfe, William H. Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico, and Theodore Roosevelt’s The Naval War of 1812. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (ABRIDGED) Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second to the fifteenth centuries, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written. This abridgment retains the full scope of the original, while emphasizing elements ignored in all other abridgments—in particular the role of religion in the empire and the rise of Islam. MONTCALM AND WOLFE The result of more than forty years of passionate research, Montcalm and Wolfe is the epic story of Europe’s struggle for dominance of the New World. Thought by many to be Francis Parkman’s greatest work, it is a riveting read and an essential part of any military history collection. HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO William H. Prescott’s sweeping account of Cortés’s subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day. THE NAVAL WAR OF 1812 Published when its author, Theodore Roosevelt, was only twenty-three years old, The Naval War of 1812 was immediately hailed as a literary and scholarly triumph, and it is still considered the definitive book on the subject. Roosevelt’s inimitable style and robust narrative make The Naval War of 1812 enthralling, illuminating, and utterly essential to every armchair historian.

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0679645691

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Harry's War

By: D. Edward Bradley

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Harry's War

By: D. Edward Bradley

In 1941 in war-torn England, thirteen-year-old Harry Lockwood steps off the train and embarks on his new life at Markham College, a boys' boarding school near London. It's a story of war and lost innocence, though also one of loyalty and joy.

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Watchmaker Publishing

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1929148224

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All Or Nothing

The Cinema of Mike Leigh

By: Edward Trostle Jones

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All Or Nothing

The Cinema of Mike Leigh

By: Edward Trostle Jones

This critical study of Mike Leigh's cinema is a comprehensive assessment of his thirty plus years in film, including his television features, from the first feature-length Bleak Moments to All or Nothing. Through his own species of tragicomedy and favored thematic content concentrating on relationships, Leigh enlarges the emotional boundaries of cinema for performers and audience alike. His deep and fully realized characters often subvert both decorum and irony traditionally associated with British film and television. Leigh's sense of the reciprocity and interpenetration of the material mundane, the ridiculous, and the humanistic sublime brings respect for the complexity of the ordinary and merits celebration within the democratic and demotic art of film.

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Peter Lang

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0820467456

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Buttermilk Graffiti

A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine

By: Edward Lee

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Buttermilk Graffiti

A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine

By: Edward Lee

Winner, 2019 James Beard Award for Best Book of the Year in Writing Finalist, 2019 IACP Award, Literary Food Writing Named a Best Food Book of the Year by the Boston Globe, Smithsonian, BookRiot, and more Semifinalist, Goodreads Choice Awards “Thoughtful, well researched, and truly moving. Shines a light on what it means to cook and eat American food, in all its infinitely nuanced and ever-evolving glory.” —Anthony Bourdain American food is the story of mash-ups. Immigrants arrive, cultures collide, and out of the push-pull come exciting new dishes and flavors. But for Edward Lee, who, like Anthony Bourdain or Gabrielle Hamilton, is as much a writer as he is a chef, that first surprising bite is just the beginning. What about the people behind the food? What about the traditions, the innovations, the memories? A natural-born storyteller, Lee decided to hit the road and spent two years uncovering fascinating narratives from every corner of the country. There’s a Cambodian couple in Lowell, Massachusetts, and their efforts to re-create the flavors of their lost country. A Uyghur café in New York’s Brighton Beach serves a noodle soup that seems so very familiar and yet so very exotic—one unexpected ingredient opens a window onto an entirely unique culture. A beignet from Café du Monde in New Orleans, as potent as Proust’s madeleine, inspires a narrative that tunnels through time, back to the first Creole cooks, then forward to a Korean rice-flour hoedduck and a beignet dusted with matcha. Sixteen adventures, sixteen vibrant new chapters in the great evolving story of American cuisine. And forty recipes, created by Lee, that bring these new dishes into our own kitchens.

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Artisan

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1579658512

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Grassroots for Hire

Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy

By: Edward T. Walker

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Grassroots for Hire

Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy

By: Edward T. Walker

Although 'grassroots' conjures up images of independent citizen organizing, much mass participation today is sponsored by elite consultants working for corporations and powerful interest groups. This book pulls back the curtain to reveal a lucrative industry of consulting firms that incentivize public activism as a marketable service. Edward Walker illustrates how, spurred by the post-sixties advocacy explosion and rising business political engagement, elite consultants have deployed new technologies to commercialize mass participation. Using evidence from interviews, surveys and public records, Grassroots for Hire paints a detailed portrait of these consultants and their clients. Today, Fortune 500 firms hire them to counter-mobilize against regulation, protest or controversy. Ironically, some advocacy groups now outsource organizing to them. Walker also finds that consultants are reshaping both participation and policymaking, but unethical 'astroturf' strategies are often ineffective. This pathbreaking book calls for a rethinking of interactions between corporations, advocacy groups, and elites in politics.

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Cambridge University Press

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113991619X

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Improving Your Leadership Intelligence

A Field Book for K-12 Leaders

By: Wanda S. Maulding Green,Edward E. Leonard

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Improving Your Leadership Intelligence

A Field Book for K-12 Leaders

By: Wanda S. Maulding Green,Edward E. Leonard

Based on Leadership Intelligence: Navigating to Your True North, this book Leadership Intelligence, A Fieldbook for School Leaders, is a practical tool to aid both the novice and experienced administrator grow their leadership skillset. The fieldguide is replete with scenarios of actual K12 school incidents (including solutions and rationales) to guide the leader through analysis and reflection. Additionally, current and supporting readings along with various activities are included to aid the leader attain an improved leadership imprint for life.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475835558

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HELLBOUND

The Sadistic Sex Murders Of Harvey Glatman

By: Edward S. Sullivan

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HELLBOUND

The Sadistic Sex Murders Of Harvey Glatman

By: Edward S. Sullivan

Harvey Glatman was, from his teenage years onward, obsessed with ropes and bondage, pornography, and a burning desire to dominate women through fear. Inspired by his huge collection of bondage art and photography purchased from Irving Klaw, Glatman evenetually turned his perverted fantasies into a terrifying reality – raping, torturing and murdering three young models, before an attempted fourth killing was thwarted by a passing police patrol officer. This special short ebook in the “Careers Of Evil” series examines Glatman’s deeply twisted life, shocking crimes, and eventual punishment in vivid detail; from his teenage convictions for robbery to the culmination of his horrific and brutal killings, HELLBOUND is the deeply disturbing story of a psychopath who was never able to control his macabre urges.

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1909923567

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Roots of Conflict

British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763

By: Douglas Edward Leach

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Roots of Conflict

British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763

By: Douglas Edward Leach

This lively book recounts the story of the antagonism between the American colonists and the British armed forces prior to the Revolution. Douglas Leach reveals certain Anglo-American attitudes and stereotypes that evolved before 1763 and became an important factor leading to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Using research from both England and the United States, Leach provides a comprehensive study of this complex historical relationship. British professional armed forces first were stationed in significant numbers in the colonies during the last quarter of the seventeenth century. During early clashes in Virginia in the 1670s and in Boston and New York in the late 1680s, the colonists began to perceive the British standing army as a repressive force. The colonists rarely identified with the British military and naval personnel and often came to dislike them as individuals and groups. Not suprisingly, these hostile feelings were reciprocated by the British soldiers, who viewed the colonists as people who had failed to succeed at home and had chosen a crude existence in the wilderness. These attitudes hardened, and by the mid-eighteenth century an atmosphere of distrust and suspicion prevailed on both sides. With the outbreak of the French and Indian War in 1754, greater numbers of British regulars came to America. Reaching uprecedented levels, the increased contact intensified the British military's difficulty in finding shelter and acquiring needed supplies and troops from the colonists. Aristocratic British officers considered the provincial officers crude amateurs -- incompetent, ineffective, and undisciplined -- leading slovenly, unreliable troops. Colonists, in general, hindered the British military by profiteering whenever possible, denouncing taxation for military purposes, and undermining recruiting efforts. Leach shows that these attitudes, formed over decades of tension-breeding contact, are an important development leading up to the American Revolution.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807898791

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Body of Bones

A June Williams County Coroner Murder Case

By: Edward W. Easton

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Body of Bones

A June Williams County Coroner Murder Case

By: Edward W. Easton

Ed Easton weaves an intriguing story as he carries the reader on a thrilling series of vicious murders in Western Illinois. June Williams the popular County Coroner is deeply involved in the most electrifying serial killer case of her career. BODY OF BONES will leave you on the edge of your seat as the murders continue gripping you into the case and Junes personal life. Th e reader becomes captivated as June entangles herself in the web of an obsessed madman. The final pages of this saga should enthrall you as June and her family become the target of the killers revenge.

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1452099693

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Affectionately...In Jesus and Mary

By: Edward Makuta

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Affectionately...In Jesus and Mary

By: Edward Makuta

This collection of short stories examines the lives of five very different men as they study for the priesthood and experience seminary life. Affectionately in Jesus and Mary presents a collection of related short stories about the lives of five very different men. Each man is studying for the priesthood, but they approach their seminary studies very differently. The stories chronicle the day-to-day sacred, secular, holy, sinful, heroic, and petty thoughts, words, and deeds of the five men as they journey through each of the stages of training and formation that culminate in ordination into the priesthood. Vinnie Lauter tries to account for his need to always be the center of attention, even in the seminary. Eddie Moszka wonders if being a virgin is a blessing or a curse, while JV Delancey constantly struggles with religious obedience and with the demands of community living in the seminary. Jay Kenny increasingly feels that Thomism, the official philosophy and theology of the Catholic Church, has strapped him in an emotional and intellectual straightjacket. The saintly and scholarly Sean Saint-Jean, although he has personally reconciled Christianity and evolution, struggles with the ban on teaching and publishing on the topic. These stories delve into a private world that is normally hidden from view, exploring the lives of menwhether admirable or blameworthywho inhabit this world.

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1450297803

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9781450297806

Recalling Our Own Stories

Spiritual Renewal for Religious Caregivers

By: Edward P. Wimberly

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Recalling Our Own Stories

Spiritual Renewal for Religious Caregivers

By: Edward P. Wimberly

How religious caregivers can find spiritual renewal in their own story Recalling Our Own Stories, which author Edward P. Wimberly describes as "a spiritual retreat in book form," is designed to help clergy and religious caregivers face the challenges of ministry. It is also a valuable resource for practitioners who assist these clergy and caregivers in meeting the challenges of their work. Wimberly enables caregivers to map out and come to grips with cultural expectations of their profession. He also helps readers explore and edit the mythologies that make up their self-image, attitudes toward others, expectations about their performance and role, and convictions about ministry. Finally, he provides a model for spiritual and emotional review grounded in narrative psychology and spiritual approaches. As Wimberly explains, this book offers a way to renew our motivation for ministry by reconnecting to our original call, visualizing again how God has acted and remains intricately involved in our lives. Wimberly demonstrates how religious caregivers, often facing burnout, can tap the sources of renewal that reside in the faith community.

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Fortress Press

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150645478X

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9781506454788

Gemmy

An Epic Adventure

By: Edward Holzman

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Gemmy

An Epic Adventure

By: Edward Holzman

In this beautifully illustrated and magical story, Gemmy, a sweet young Kangaroo is born into an idyllic world where Kangaroos flourish. Gemmy is perfect except she was born without a pouch - a big deal for Kangaroos! As she nears adolescence, she is shunned by some and teased by others in her herd. This makes her very sad. On an otherwise normal day, through a series of unexpected events, Gemmy finds herself hundreds of miles from home in the faraway land of the Australian Outback. She finds herself alone - totally alone, in a new and incredibly dangerous place. But Gemmy is not doomed - far from it, she soon meets her new and very colorful friends, both animal and human, and they unite as The Three. They soon discover a plan, a human plan, to destroy her homeland. It must be stopped... Gathering some unlikely allies along the way, the mission takes The Three on an exciting, action packed, fraught with danger adventure - all against seemingly insurmountable odds! Will she succeed, and how? Will Gemmy save her family, her precious homeland, and the habitat of hundreds of kindred spirit critters? "A great story! I loved it! "Heartwarming and compelling- full of great characters, positive life lessons and humor- all told in the context of thrilling Action and Adventure Appealing to all genders and age groups. A straight out of the gate classic!" Paula Jameson-Whitney, Assistant Superintendent Educational Services, Ret. National School District

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1644717603

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9781644717608

Hardwick's Annual Biography for 1856

By: Edward Walford

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Hardwick's Annual Biography for 1856

By: Edward Walford

Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

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3375173687

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The Master of Game - The Oldest English Book on Hunting

By: Edward of York

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The Master of Game - The Oldest English Book on Hunting

By: Edward of York

First published in the early 15th century and reprinted with a foreword by American President and hunting fan Theodore Roosevelt. Considered the very first book in English on hunting. Full of information on how to hunt hare, hart, buck, roe, boar and wolf, fox, badger and otter. Not just a historical guide to hunting there are still good honest tips to maintaining and caring for your dogs. Including a specially commissioned introduction to deer stalking and hunting.

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Read Books Ltd

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1473342015

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9781473342019

Encyclopedia of the Blues

By: Edward M. Komara

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Encyclopedia of the Blues

By: Edward M. Komara

This comprehensive two-volume set brings together all aspects of the blues from performers and musical styles to record labels and cultural issues, including regional evolution and history. Organized in an accessible A-to-Z format, the Encyclopedia of the Blues is an essential reference resource for information on this unique American music genre. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the Blues website.

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Psychology Press

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0415926998

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9780415926997

Fort Niagara

The Key to the Inland Oceans and the French Movement to Dominate North America

By: William Edward Utley,Patricia Kay Scott

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Fort Niagara

The Key to the Inland Oceans and the French Movement to Dominate North America

By: William Edward Utley,Patricia Kay Scott

Fort Niagara is located twelve miles downriver from the world-renowned Niagara Falls, yet few visitors to either site know this was once Iroquois territory and claimed by France. This volume summarizes the fascinating span of North American history when New France was established during the sixteenth century in present-day Canada, explored, and expanded to the Niagara River — a strategic water and portage route connected to the Great Lakes. Chronologically the authors dramatically trace how the Iroquois gained the Niagara River, and how they kept this lucrative trade route for themselves long after the French became established fur traders in the Great Lakes. The Iroquois continued to control the Niagara River as the French built the short-lived Forts Conti (1669), Denonville (1687/1688), and finally Fort Niagara (1726-1759). Fort Niagara: The Key to the Inland Oceans and the French Movement to Dominate North America incorporates actions and political changes elsewhere that influenced the French and Iroquois at Niagara, especially during the French and Indian War, which ended the French Occupation of Fort Niagara and set the stage for the Iroquois to lose their long-held Niagara River territory.

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iUniverse

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1532070640

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9781532070648

Brown Roots

Anthology Blanche Brown Wright and Family

By: Edward Wright

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Brown Roots

Anthology Blanche Brown Wright and Family

By: Edward Wright

Begun by Shirley Wright with interviews of Blanche Wright and family, expanded with contributions of Brown family members, and assembled by Edward Wright and Elizabeth Alexander, this Anthology tells of the unique lives and contributions of a special family.

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