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Covert City

The Cold War and the Making of Miami

By: Vince Houghton,Eric Driggs

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Covert City

The Cold War and the Making of Miami

By: Vince Houghton,Eric Driggs

Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow. The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage. Covert City tells the history of how the entire city of Miami was constructed in the image of the US-Cuba rivalry. From the Bay of Pigs invasion to the death of Fidel Castro, the book shows how Miami is a hub for money and cocaine but also secrets and ideologies. Cuban exiles built criminal and political organizations in the city, leading Washington to set up a CIA station there, codenamed JMWAVE. It monitored gang activities, plotted secret operations against Castro, and became a base for surveilling Latin American neighbors. The money and infrastructure built for the CIA was integral to the development of Miami. Covert City is a sweeping and entertaining history, full of stunning experimental operations and colorful characters--a story of a place like no other.

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Covert City

The Cold War and the Making of Miami

By: Vince Houghton,Eric Driggs

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The Cold War and the Making of Miami

By: Vince Houghton,Eric Driggs

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African American Theater Buildings

An Illustrated Historical Directory, 1900-1955

By: Eric Ledell Smith

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African American Theater Buildings

An Illustrated Historical Directory, 1900-1955

By: Eric Ledell Smith

African American theater buildings were theaters owned or managed by blacks or whites and serving an African American audience. Nearly 2,000 such theaters, including nickelodeons, vaudeville houses, storefronts, drive-ins, opera houses and neighborhood movie theaters, existed in the 20th century, yet very little has been written about them. In this book the African American theater buildings from 1900 through 1955 are arranged by state, then by city, and then alphabetically under the name by which they were known. The street address, dates of operation, number of seats, architect, whether it was a member of TOBA (Theater Owners Booking Association), type of theater (nickelodeon, vaudeville, musical, drama or picture), alternate name(s), race and name of manager or owner, whether the audience was mixed, and the fate of the theater are given where known. Commentary by theater historians is also provided.

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McFarland

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1476604665

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America's Middlemen

Power at the Edge of Empire

By: Eric Grynaviski

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America's Middlemen

Power at the Edge of Empire

By: Eric Grynaviski

Throughout American political history, the US government has formed alliances with militias, tribes, and rebels. Sometimes, these alliances have been successful, dramatically reshaping the battlefield. But these alliances have also risked creating larger wars in regions where the United States had no real interest. Understanding these alliances - and much of American political history - requires moving beyond our normal focus on traditional diplomats or social elites. Traders, missionaries, former slaves, and low-level government employees drove these alliances. These intermediaries used their relationships across borders to shape security politics, affecting American and thereby world history. Skillfully integrating political science with history and sociology, Eric Grynaviski provides a novel account of who matters and why in international politics. By developing broader views about political agency - how people come to make a difference in world politics - he brings into focus new histories of world politics and how they matter for scholars and the public.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108340490

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Can We Trust AI?

By: Rama Chellappa

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Can We Trust AI?

By: Rama Chellappa

Artificial intelligence is part of our daily lives. How can we address its limitations and guide its use for the benefit of communities worldwide? Artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from an experimental computer algorithm used by academic researchers to a commercially reliable method of sifting through large sets of data that detect patterns not readily apparent through more rudimentary search tools. As a result, AI-based programs are helping doctors make more informed decisions about patient care, city planners align roads and highways to reduce traffic congestion with better efficiency, and merchants scan financial transactions to quickly flag suspicious purchases. But as AI applications grow, concerns have increased, too, including worries about applications that amplify existing biases in business practices and about the safety of self-driving vehicles. In Can We Trust AI?, Dr. Rama Chellappa, a researcher and innovator with 40 years in the field, recounts the evolution of AI, its current uses, and how it will drive industries and shape lives in the future. Leading AI researchers, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs contribute their expertise as well on how AI works, what we can expect from it, and how it can be harnessed to make our lives not only safer and more convenient but also more equitable. Can We Trust AI? is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the potential—and pitfalls—of artificial intelligence. The book features: • an exploration of AI's origins during the post–World War II era through the computer revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, and its explosion among technology firms since 2012; • highlights of innovative ways that AI can diagnose medical conditions more quickly and accurately; • explanations of how the combination of AI and robotics is changing how we drive; and • interviews with leading AI researchers who are pushing the boundaries of AI for the world's benefit and working to make its applications safer and more just. Johns Hopkins Wavelengths In classrooms, field stations, and laboratories in Baltimore and around the world, the Bloomberg Distinguished Professors of Johns Hopkins University are opening the boundaries of our understanding of many of the world's most complex challenges. The Johns Hopkins Wavelengths book series brings readers inside their stories, illustrating how their pioneering discoveries and innovations benefit people in their neighborhoods and across the globe in artificial intelligence, cancer research, food systems' environmental impacts, health equity, planetary science, science diplomacy, and other critical arenas of study. Through these compelling narratives, their insights will spark conversations from dorm rooms to dining rooms to boardrooms.

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JHU Press

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1421445301

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9781421445304

The Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn

Ten Historic Walking Tours

By: Seth I. Kamil,Eric Wakin

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The Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn

Ten Historic Walking Tours

By: Seth I. Kamil,Eric Wakin

The Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn is an entertaining and informative walking guide to the historic people and places of Brooklyn.

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NYU Press

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081474785X

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25 Great Sax Solos

Transcriptions * Lessons * Bios * Photos

By: Eric J. Morones

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25 Great Sax Solos

Transcriptions * Lessons * Bios * Photos

By: Eric J. Morones

(Sax Instruction). From Chuck Rio and King Curtis to David Sanborn and Kenny G, take an inside look at the genesis of pop saxophone. This book/audio pack provides solo transcriptions in standard notation, lessons on how to play them, bios, equipment, photos, history, and much more. The audio features full-band demos of every sax solo in the book. Songs include: After the Love Has Gone * Deacon Blues * Just the Two of Us * Just the Way You Are * Mercy, Mercy Me * Money * Respect * Spooky * Take Five * Tequila * Yakety Sax * and more.

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149503139X

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Essential Jazz Records

Volume 1: Ragtime to Swing

By: Max Harrison,Charles Fox,Eric Thacker

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Essential Jazz Records

Volume 1: Ragtime to Swing

By: Max Harrison,Charles Fox,Eric Thacker

First published in 1984 and reissued to coincide withthe publication of the second volume, this selection of the 250 best jazz records traces the earliest roots of the music to the beginnings of the modern jazz era. Volume One's focus is on LP collections of 78 rpm originals and nearly every significant musician--both familiar and obscure--of early 20th-century jazz is listed. For each record listed, full details of personnel, recording dates and locations are provided.

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0567269698

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Meaning and Void

Inner Experience and the Incentives in Peoples Lives

By: Eric Klinger

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Meaning and Void

Inner Experience and the Incentives in Peoples Lives

By: Eric Klinger

In a wide-ranging theory of the way people function, the author shows how their inner lives depend upon and in turn influence their commitments to goals or incentives.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452901554

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Lilith

By: Eric Rickstad

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Lilith

By: Eric Rickstad

From the internationally bestselling author of I Am Not Who You Think I Am—a New York Times Thriller of the Year—comes Lilith, an incendiary powerhouse of a novel that strikes straight at the wounded heart of America. Mother. Hero. Villain. Killer. After her son Lydan suffers traumatic injuries in a school shooting, single mom Elisabeth Ross grows enraged at men in power. If they won’t do anything to help end this epidemic of violence, she will. Believing it’s her destiny, she sets out to awaken the world to the cowards these men are and commits her own shocking act of violence. Going by the name Lilith—the first wife of Adam who fled Eden rather than serve a man—she posts a video of her crime that reverberates throughout society. Praised by some, demonized by others, and hunted by the FBI and vigilantes alike, Elisabeth must keep her identity a secret as she tries to care for her son. As events take startling twists, Elisabeth begins to question her act of violence and the very roots and mythology of violence itself. Was her act justified or has she become the monster that the original Lilith was accused of being? As the FBI draws closer, and Lydan starts to display odd, terrifying behavior, Elisabeth plots to avoid capture and keep her son safe at all costs, fearing she’ll never escape what she’s done without losing her son forever. Written with Rickstad’s singular command of language, human insight, and unnerving suspense, Lilith is a tale of our times. Tragic and profound, it echoes in the mind and lingers in the blood.

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Blackstone Publishing

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1094000760

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9781094000763

Good Hipster Man

By: Eric Cohen

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Good Hipster Man

By: Eric Cohen

Will Chambers, an easygoing Brooklyn librarian who loves cartoons and punk rock music, isn't so happy-go-lucky after eight months out of work. If he doesn't find another job soon, he's going to be living in a box somewhere in the New York City subway system! His back pressed firmly to the wall, Will applies for a job in trendy Williamsburg promising "lots of fresh air and unbeatable benefits." Will's unforeseen new career is an adventurous one, as he is quickly confronted with a neighborhood of hipsters, a perky orange-haired baker named Coriander, and his feelings for his former co-worker and best friend, Beth, who is definitely not your textbook children's librarian.

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1105033325

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The Jazz Scene

By: Eric Hobsbawm

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The Jazz Scene

By: Eric Hobsbawm

From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering it as a boy in 1933 ('the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany'). Hobsbawm's column led to his writing a critical history, The Jazz Scene (1959). This enhanced edition from 1993 adds later writings by Hobsbawm in which he meditates further 'on why jazz is not only a marvellous noise but a central concern for anyone concerned with twentieth-century society and the twentieth-century arts.' 'All the greats are covered in passing (Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday), while further space is given to Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson, and Sidney Bechet ... Perhaps Hobsbawm's tastiest comments are about the business side and work ethics, where his historian's eye strips the jazz scene down to its commercial spine.' Kirkus Reviews

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Faber & Faber

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0571320112

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9780571320110

Our Land, Our Soul

Majestic Teton Valley - the Tetons' Western Slope

By: Eric I. Soyland

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Our Land, Our Soul

Majestic Teton Valley - the Tetons' Western Slope

By: Eric I. Soyland

Written from the point of view of a wagon master journeying with settlers to the area from Utah and Idaho Territory in 1887 and then returning more than 100 years later, Our Land, Our Soul: Majestic Teton Valley-The Tetons' Western Slope features 102 photographs and Soyland's poetry and prose that celebrate the rare beauty of the region. This is the first book devoted solely to the Teton's western slope, Soyland indicates, and it was a true labor of love. Soyland wrote the text from the point of view of a wagon master because he was intrigued by what early settlers felt when they saw this magnificent valley for the first time, and what they might think could they return in 2011. He writes of the Tetons: A peak so imposing, so Grand as to dominate the sky itself and, yes, surrounding that grand mountain will be three others of lesser size, brothers of the Grand one and there, at their feet will be spread the tablecloth of dreams and hopes come true. Soyland says his goal is to inspire others to protect the landscape and the wildlife that inhabits it so that in another hundred years, and for generations to come, this magical place will remain unchanged.

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Farcountry Press

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1591520967

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Raiders!

The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made

By: Alan Eisenstock,Chris Strompolos,Eric Zala

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Raiders!

The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made

By: Alan Eisenstock,Chris Strompolos,Eric Zala

The official companion book to the hit feature-length documentary, Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made, in theaters and on video on demand June 27th 2016 In 1982, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Chris Strompolos, eleven, asked Eric Zala, twelve, a question: "Would you like to help me do a remake Raiders of the Lost Ark? I'm playing Indiana Jones." And they did it. Every shot, every line of dialogue, every stunt. They borrowed and collected costumes, convinced neighborhood kids to wear grass skirts and play natives, cast a fifteen-year-old as Indy's love interest, rounded up seven thousand snakes (sort of), built the Ark, the Idol, the huge boulder, found a desert in Mississippi, and melted the bad guys' faces off. It took seven years. Along the way, Chris had his first kiss (on camera), they nearly burned down the house and incinerated Eric, lived through parents getting divorced and remarried, and watched their friendship disintegrate. Alan Eisenstock's Raiders! is the incredible true story of Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos, how they realized their impossible dream of remaking Raiders of the Lost Ark, and how their friendship survived all challenges, from the building of a six-foot round fiberglass boulder to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

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Macmillan

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1250001471

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9781250001474

Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

By: Eric Jay Dolin

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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

By: Eric Jay Dolin

For all of fur's contentious position in American culture today, historian Eric Jay Dolin shows its centrality in our nation's ever-surprising history. He argues that the trade in animal skins turned colonial America into a tumultuous frontier where global powers battled for control. From the seventeenth century right on up to the Gilded Age, the developed world's appetite for fur made the new continent, with its wealth of fur-bearing wildlife, a seemingly inexhaustible resource. The result was a major boost in the evolution of the colonies into a powerful new player on the world stage. Dolin sheds insight on the ways the fur trade created international tensions--in New England, the Great Lakes, and in the expanding West. Fur traders were often the first white men to map major rivers, forests, and mountains, then soon pushed Native Americans off their lands as John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company attempted to monopolize the West.--From publisher description.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393340023

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9780393340020

The 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War

A History and Roster

By: Eric R. Faust

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The 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War

A History and Roster

By: Eric R. Faust

The hard-fighting 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry was recruited from sparsely settled southwest Michigan shortly after the Civil War broke out. Mainly composed of young farmers and tradesmen, the regiment rapidly evolved into one of the Army of the Cumberland's elite combat units, tenaciously fighting its way through some of the war's bloodiest engagements. This book--featuring a complete unit roster--chronicles the regiment through the words of the veterans, tracing their development from a rabble of idealists into a fine-tuned fighting machine that executed successful bayonet charges against superior numbers. The narrative continues into the postwar period, discussing the ex-soldiers' careers through Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. Photographs, maps, illustrations and a statistical analysis round out the work.

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McFarland

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1476663165

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9781476663166

Frommer'sYellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks

By: Eric Peterson

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Frommer'sYellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks

By: Eric Peterson

Frommer's Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks is packed with all the facts, tips and descriptions you need to have perfect park vacation, in a pocket size guide: The most memorable park experiences, from Old Faithful and Mammoth Hot Springs, to Snake River raft trips. Great places to stay in and near the parks, ranging from historic lodges to family-friendly motels-plus a complete campground guide for each park. A fully illustrated nature guide to help you spot and identify bald eagles, bison, wildflowers, and more. The best hikes, from ranger-led interpretive walks to challenging backcountry overnights. What to see and do outside of the parks: rodeos, chuckwagon feeds, IMAX nature films, an elk preserve, Jackson Hole's bars and boutiques, and more. Detailed, accurate park and trail maps

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*Frommers

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0764542850

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9780764542855

Ashland

The Henry Clay Estate

By: Eric Brooks

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Ashland

The Henry Clay Estate

By: Eric Brooks

On September 13, 1804, Henry Clay entered into an agreement to purchase 125 acres on Todd's Road just outside the city limits of Lexington, Kentucky. With this transaction, Clay began the creation of one of Lexington's most important sites. Over the next two centuries, Ashland would be home to five generations of one of Kentucky's first families. Ashland would also be the source of some of Kentucky's finest horses; the location of a small but important Civil War skirmish; the birthplace of the state's flagship university; the home to one of the state's first museums; one of Lexington's first subdivisions; and finally a National Historic Landmark. Many books have been written about Henry Clay, Ashland's creator and most important resident, but this is the first to tell the story of his beloved farm and personal retreat.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738543950

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Michigan Free

Your Comprehensive Guide to Free Travel, Recreation, and Entertainment Opportunities

By: Eric Freedman

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Michigan Free

Your Comprehensive Guide to Free Travel, Recreation, and Entertainment Opportunities

By: Eric Freedman

A comprehensive guide to no-cost entertainment, travel, and recreation opportunities in Michigan.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472082000

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9780472082001

The New York Times Guide to New York City Restaurants 2004

By: William Grimes,Eric Asimov,New York Times Guides

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The New York Times Guide to New York City Restaurants 2004

By: William Grimes,Eric Asimov,New York Times Guides

Nearly 1,000 restaurants are included in this latest edition of the most trusted guide to eating well in New York. Concise reviews by the city's most respected food writers are enhanced by original features not found in any other restaurant guide, including: ambience, recommended dishes and complete price ranges for an accurate estimate of your final bill. Only The New York Times Restaurant Guide 2004 provides you with: * The very best restaurants as ranked by The Times' star-rating system. * The best restaurants in every neighborhood. * The best inexpensive restaurants in every neighborhood. * William Grimes' take on the latest trends in food and restaurants, and Eric Asimov's lists of the best places in New York for everything from oysters and sushi to the best places to eat with children. * New features on the best places for all-American favorites and New York classics, from burgers to pastrami. * Helpful lists that locate restaurants according to the type of cuisine they serve.

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193088107X

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Ultimate Alien Anthology

By: Eric Cagle,Michael Mikaelian,Steve Miller,Owen K. C. Stephens

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Ultimate Alien Anthology

By: Eric Cagle,Michael Mikaelian,Steve Miller,Owen K. C. Stephens

This premier guide to alien races in the Star Wars universe, which complements the Star Wars Roleplaying Game, is a revised and updated collection of more than 125 alien species suitable for play as characters in the game.

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0786928883

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9780786928880

Travellers New York

By: Eric Bailey,Ruth Bailey

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Travellers New York

By: Eric Bailey,Ruth Bailey

Whether long haul, short haul, regional tours or city breaks – Travellers help planning the trip and are full of useful information on walks and tours, eating out, shopping and top travel tips.

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Thomas Cook

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1841577979

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9781841577975

New York

By: Eric Bailey,Ruth Bailey

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New York

By: Eric Bailey,Ruth Bailey

A travel guide to New York, seeking to give the reader a flavour of the city, including Wall Street, Manhattan architecture, Broadway, its sporting life and fast food. There are details and maps of Manhattan and New York's environs - the Bronx, Brooklyn, Long Island, Queens and Staten Island. Mapped walking tours take you through Brooklyn Heights, Chinatown, Soho, Greenwich Village and Yorkville. There is information on accommodation, restaurants and cafes to suit every budget.

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