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The Bad Popes

By: Eric Russell Chamberlin

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The Bad Popes

By: Eric Russell Chamberlin

The stories of seven popes who ruled at seven different critical periods in the 600 years leading into the Reformation.

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Barnes & Noble Publishing

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0880291168

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9780880291163

The Emperor, Charlemagne

By: Russell Chamberlin

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A biography of the man who built an empire to rival the mighty Byzantines. Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Lombards and Emperor of the Romans, also initiated the renaissance of learning and art known as the Golden Age.

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245

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Sutton Publishing

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0750934824

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9780750934824

Secret Denver: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

By: Eric Peterson,David Lewis

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Secret Denver: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

By: Eric Peterson,David Lewis

here do the tunnels under the Colorado State Capitol go and why were they dug there in the first place? What is the backstory behind Tom’s Baby, the largest piece of gold ever unearthed in Colorado? Denver may be known worldwide as the Mile High City, but its elevation is just one item on a long list of anomalies. In Secret Denver: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure you’ll find many more quirks and mysteries to explore. Learn why Lakeside is one of the most historic amusement parks in the nation. Discover cemeteries repurposed as parks, streets once paved with radium, elves hiding in museum dioramas, and a seemingly endless parade of ghosts. Local journalists David Lewis and Eric Peterson tackle these conundrums and many others in the city they call home. With their combined experience traveling the trails less taken and the questions rarely asked, Secret Denver is bound to illuminate the city from an unexpected perspective.

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304

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Reedy Press LLC

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1681061058

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9781681061054

Seeing Underground

Maps, Models, and Mining Engineering in America

By: Eric C. Nystrom

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Seeing Underground

Maps, Models, and Mining Engineering in America

By: Eric C. Nystrom

Digging mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, little mining was deep enough to require maps. However, the major finds of the mid-nineteenth century, such as the Comstock Lode, were vastly larger than any before in America. In Seeing Underground, Nystrom argues that, as industrial mining came of age in the United States, the development of maps and models gave power to a new visual culture and allowed mining engineers to advance their profession, gaining authority over mining operations from the miners themselves. Starting in the late nineteenth century, mining engineers developed a new set of practices, artifacts, and discourses to visualize complex, pitch-dark three-dimensional spaces. These maps and models became necessary tools in creating and controlling those spaces. They made mining more understandable, predictable, and profitable. Nystrom shows that this new visual culture was crucial to specific developments in American mining, such as implementing new safety regulations after the Avondale, Pennsylvania fire of 1869 killed 110 men and boys; understanding complex geology, as in the rich ores of Butte, Montana; and settling high-stakes litigation, such as the Tonopah, Nevada, Jim Butler v. West End lawsuit, which reached the US Supreme Court. Nystrom demonstrates that these neglected artifacts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have much to teach us today. The development of a visual culture helped create a new professional class of mining engineers and changed how mining was done. Seeing Undergound is the winner of the 2015 Mining History Association’s Clark Spence Award for the best book on mining history.

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316

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University of Nevada Press

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0874179335

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9780874179330

The Super Duper Trivia Book (Volume 1)

School Your Friends, and Classmates with Trivia for Every Occasion!

By: Lou Harry,Eric Berman

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The Super Duper Trivia Book (Volume 1)

School Your Friends, and Classmates with Trivia for Every Occasion!

By: Lou Harry,Eric Berman

Get the answers to 1,700 tough questions and become the smartest person in the room.

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192

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Simon and Schuster

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1604338717

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9781604338713

When Presidents Lie

A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences

By: Eric Alterman

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When Presidents Lie

A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences

By: Eric Alterman

“I’ve never read a better explanation of why presidents lie.”—John W. Dean, former counsel to President Nixon, The Washington Monthly By the end of the twentieth century, after decades of demoralizing revelations about the mendacity of their elected officials, most Americans had come to accept the fact that deception was not only an accepted practice in government but also pervasive. Whatever the reasons proposed to justify falsehoods—practicality, expediency, extraordinary conditions of wartime—the ability to lie convincingly had come to be regarded as almost being a qualification for holding public office. Although such behavior has come to be tolerated, little accounting has been taken of the effects of this institutionalized dishonesty in our political culture. When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences addresses its subject not from a moral perspective, but from a pragmatic one, and discovers that in the end, honesty in government is, in fact, the best policy. Journalist and historian Eric Alterman’s meticulous research is drawn from primary-source materials, both government documents and the media reactions to the unfolding dramas, and demonstrates how these lies returned to haunt their tellers, or their successors, destroying the very policy the lie had been intended to support. Without exception, each of the presidents paid a high price for deception. So, too, did the nation. This is history at its most compelling, a balanced, eloquent, and revelatory chronicle of presidential dishonesty and its incalculable costs. In the fundamental questions it raises about leadership, accountability, and democracy, it is required reading for anyone who is concerned about America’s past—or her future.

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660

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Penguin

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1101158875

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9781101158876

Everyday Life in the Nineteenth Century

By: Eric Russell Chamberlin

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Everyday Life in the Nineteenth Century

By: Eric Russell Chamberlin

The 19th century and the technology that powered the wheels of the industrial revolution saw people's lives change more radically than in any previous period. For many this meant moving from the country to the harsh conditions and factories of the rapidly growing cities.

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0356075370

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The Bad Popes

By: Eric Russell Chamberlin

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The Bad Popes

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The stories of seven popes who ruled at seven different critical periods in the 600 years leading into the Reformation.

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Book's by Eric Russell Chamberlin

The Bad Popes

The Bad Popes

The Emperor, Charlemagne

The Emperor, Charlemagne

Secret Denver: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Secret Denver: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Seeing Underground

Seeing Underground

The Super Duper Trivia Book (Volume 1)

The Super Duper Trivia Book (Volume 1)

When Presidents Lie

When Presidents Lie

Everyday Life in the Nineteenth Century

Everyday Life in the Nineteenth Century

The Bad Popes

The Bad Popes

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