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Unforgivable Blackness

The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

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Unforgivable Blackness

The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

In this vivid biography Geoffrey C. Ward brings back to life the most celebrated — and the most reviled — African American of his age. Jack Johnson battled his way out of obscurity and poverty in the Jim Crow South to win the title of heavyweight champion of the world. At a time when whites ran everything in America, he took orders from no one and resolved to live as if color did not exist. While most blacks struggled simply to exist, he reveled in his riches and his fame, sleeping with whomever he pleased, to the consternation and anger of much of white America. Because he did so the federal government set out to destroy him, and he was forced to endure prison and seven years of exile. This definitive biography portrays Jack Johnson as he really was--a battler against the bigotry of his era and the embodiment of American individualism.

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Vintage

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0307492370

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9780307492371

Plastic Surgery

Principles

By: Geoffrey C. Gurtner,Peter C. Neligan

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Plastic Surgery

Principles

By: Geoffrey C. Gurtner,Peter C. Neligan

Fully updated to meet the demands of the 21st-century surgeon, this title provides you with all the most current knowledge and techniques across your entire field, allowing you to offer every patient the best possible outcome. Edited by Drs. Mathes and Hentz in its last edition, this six-volume plastic surgery reference now features new expert leadership, a new organization, new online features, and a vast collection of new information - delivering all the state-of-the-art know-how you need to overcome any challenge you may face. Renowned authorities provide evidence-based guidance to help you make the best clinical decisions, get the best results from each procedure, avoid complications, and exceed your patients' expectations.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455710520

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9781455710522

Plastic Surgery E-Book

Principles

By: Geoffrey C Gurtner,Peter C. Neligan

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Plastic Surgery E-Book

Principles

By: Geoffrey C Gurtner,Peter C. Neligan

Fully updated to meet the demands of the 21st-century surgeon, Principles, Volume 1 of Plastic Surgery, 3rd Edition, provides you with the most current knowledge and techniques in the principles of plastic surgery, allowing you to offer every patient the best possible outcome. Access all the state-of-the-art know-how you need to overcome any challenge you may face and exceed your patients’ expectations. Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability. Apply the very latest advances in plastic surgery and ensure optimal outcomes with evidence-based advice from a diverse collection of world-leading authorities. Stay abreast of the latest information on business practices, stem cell therapy, and tissue engineering, and walk through the history, psychology, and core principles of reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgery. Know what to look for and what results you can expect with over 1,000 color photographs and illustrations. Easily find the answers you need with a more templated, user-friendly, high-yield presentation.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455740403

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9781455740406

Michigan Manual of Plastic Surgery

By: David L. Brown,Widya Adidharma,Geoffrey E. Hespe

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Michigan Manual of Plastic Surgery

By: David L. Brown,Widya Adidharma,Geoffrey E. Hespe

Covering the full range of clinical concerns encountered by today’s plastic surgeons, Michigan Manual of Plastic Surgery, Third Edition, remains a portable, practical manual in this fast-changing field. Editors David L. Brown, Widya Adidharma, and Geoffrey E. Hespe, use an easy-to-follow bulleted format to provide expert guidance on fundamental principles and techniques of plastic surgery for skin and soft tissue lesions, the head and neck, facial reconstruction, craniofacial concerns, aesthetic surgery, and surgeries of the breast, hand and upper extremity, trunk, lower extremity, genitalia, and burns.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975197402

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9781975197407

Brunner

By: Geoffrey Malone

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Brunner

By: Geoffrey Malone

When Brunner's family is killed by hunters, he treks across the snowy wilderness in search of a new home among the beavers of Lake Napachokee. But nowhere is safe. Developers are bulldozing and dynamiting the lake to build a hotel, and all the animals are at risk. Yet - thought they are small - they are determined to resist the might of men and their deadly machines. BRUNNER was originally published in 1994 as THE BATTLE FOR BEAVER LAKE.

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Hodder Children's Books

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1444909355

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9781444909357

Belfast and Derry in Revolt

A New History of the Start of the Troubles

By: Simon Prince,Geoffrey Warner

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Belfast and Derry in Revolt

A New History of the Start of the Troubles

By: Simon Prince,Geoffrey Warner

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a civil war started in Northern Ireland. This book tells that story through Belfast and Derry, using original archival research to trace how multiple and overlapping conflicts unfolded on their streets. The Troubles grew out of a political process that mobilised opponents and defenders of the Stormont regime, and which also dragged London and Dublin into the crisis. Drawing upon government papers, police reports, army files, intelligence summaries, evidence to inquiries and parish chronicles, this book sheds fresh light on key events such as the 5 October 1968 march, the Battle of the Bogside, the Belfast riots of August 1969, the ‘Battle of St Matthew’s’ (June 1970) and the Falls Road curfew (July 1970). Prince and Warner offer us two richly-detailed, engaging narratives that intertwine to present a new history of the start of the Troubles in Belfast and Derry – one that also establishes a foundation for comparison with similar developments elsewhere in the world.

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Merrion Press

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1788550951

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9781788550956

Money Talks

Alan Greenspan's Free Market Rhetoric and the Tragic Legacy of Reaganomics

By: Geoffrey D. Klinger,Jennifer Adams,Kevin Howley

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Money Talks

Alan Greenspan's Free Market Rhetoric and the Tragic Legacy of Reaganomics

By: Geoffrey D. Klinger,Jennifer Adams,Kevin Howley

This book explores the American freemarket economy, espoused by Alan Greenspan, the longtime chairman of the Federal Reserve, through decoding the discourse of economics. Combining an analysis of both economics and language, the legacy of Reaganomics is examined in relation to economic inequality, fiscal policy, public discourse, and the moral economy. How notions of easy money, conspicuous consumption, and unlimited economic growth were harnessed to justify the Free Market revolution is also discussed. This book aims to highlight the drivers of modern inequality and economic distress. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the history of economic thought and economic discourse.

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Springer Nature

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3031008162

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9783031008160

Kate Winters

By: Geoffrey Workenrich

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Kate Winters

By: Geoffrey Workenrich

This is Kate’s story. From age five to adult, from intellectual exposures to a violent experience, from longing to love. Kate’s reactions to the experiences of her life reveal a constantly curious multi-faceted character -- capable of both animated silliness and reasoned seriousness. Perceived as an enigmatic outsider by those afflicted by their doubts and desires, Kate seeks and finds the purity of a kindred soul and delights in the warmth of an abiding and loving friendship. Creating her own set of rules, she affects the lives of such diverse personalities as a teenage boy, a Chicago policeman and a religiously focused charity worker. And, while so involved, she satisfies her often unsated energy by being in a passionate and life-changing relationship. This is Kate Winters’ story, her emotional and intellectual responses to life’s experiences, a story full of living and learning, of sadness and hope.

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iUniverse

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1663241082

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A Disposition to Be Rich

Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

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A Disposition to Be Rich

Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

A New York Times Notable Book The compelling behind-the-scenes story of the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age, whose villainy bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and stunned the world of finance—told by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward. Ferdinand Ward, the son of a Protestant missionary and small-town pastor, moved to New York at twenty-one and, in less than a decade, made himself the business partner of a former president and established himself as the “Young Napoleon of Finance.” In truth, he was running a massive pyramid scheme. Drawing from thousands of family documents never before examined, Geoffrey C. Ward traces his great-grandfather’s rapid rise to riches and fame, and his even more dizzying fall from grace, in a narrative populated with mistresses, crooked bankers, corrupt New York officials, and a desperate kidnapping scheme. Here is a great story about a classic American con artist.

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Vintage

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0345804694

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9780345804693

See No Evil

By: Geoffrey Cowan

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See No Evil

By: Geoffrey Cowan

From Simon & Schuster, See No Evil is Geoffrey Cowan's fascinating exploration of the backstage battle over sex and violence in the television medium. In See No Evil, Cowan offers a probing investigation into the history, impact, and politics of television censorship, examining network programming, and such controversial practices as the Family Hour.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671254111

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9780671254117

Flora!

A Woman in a Man's World

By: Flora MacDonald,Geoffrey Stevens

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Flora!

A Woman in a Man's World

By: Flora MacDonald,Geoffrey Stevens

Flora Isabel MacDonald – politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women – was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very first time. Flora! describes her amazing journey from her childhood and her time at secretarial school in Cape Breton, through her years in backroom Progressive Conservative politics, to elected office and her appointment as Canada’s first female minister of foreign affairs. Finally, she details her exceptional humanitarian work in India and in war-torn Africa and Afghanistan. Flora was driven by a lifelong conviction that there is nothing a woman cannot achieve in a world controlled by men, and she pursued this conviction in everything she did, carving a path for women in Parliament. She won international acclaim for bringing 60,000 Vietnamese refugees to Canada, and for engineering the rescue of six American hostages in Tehran in a top-secret collaboration with the CIA known as the Canadian Caper. She exposed the inhumane treatment of inmates at Kingston’s Prison for Women. She defied male chauvinists in the Progressive Conservative party by running for its leadership, and she introduced the Employment Equity Act to guarantee women equal access to federal jobs. Flora was brave. She was relentless. She was controversial. She was a force of nature. In her own words and drawing from interviews with those who knew her, Flora! grants us insight into this exceptional woman who changed the course of history.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0228009006

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9780228009009

American Fiction, 1901-1925

A Bibliography

By: Geoffrey D. Smith

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American Fiction, 1901-1925

A Bibliography

By: Geoffrey D. Smith

A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521434696

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9780521434690

Baseball

An Illustrated History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

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Baseball

An Illustrated History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

530 illustrations in text

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Knopf

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0679404597

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9780679404590

FilmCraft: Producing

By: Geoffrey Macnab,Sharon Swart

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FilmCraft: Producing

By: Geoffrey Macnab,Sharon Swart

Responsible for hiring all members of cast and crew from the director onwards, the producer's role is central to the making of any film and responsibilities can include everything from script development to securing financing to masterminding a film's marketing campaign. While few film producers are household names, they wield a degree of control that only the biggest-name directors can aspire to. As with all of the FilmCraft titles, this book is based on new indepth interviews and features such greats as Tim Bevan, Marin Karmitz, Jeremy Thomas, Jon Kilik, Lauren Shuler Donner, Jan Chapman, and Peter Aalbæk Jensen.

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Ilex Press

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1781570493

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9781781570494

Valuation of Equity Securities

History, Theory and Application

By: Geoffrey Poitras

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Valuation of Equity Securities

History, Theory and Application

By: Geoffrey Poitras

Provides a treatment of academic and practitioner approaches to equity security valuation. This book challenges conventional academic wisdom surrounding the ergodic properties of stochastic processes, guided by historical and philosophical insights. It presents the implications of a general stochastic interpretation of equity security valuation.

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World Scientific

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9814295388

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9789814295383

A Practical Guide to The Wiring Regulations

17th Edition IEE Wiring Regulations (BS 7671:2008)

By: Geoffrey Stokes,John Bradley

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A Practical Guide to The Wiring Regulations

17th Edition IEE Wiring Regulations (BS 7671:2008)

By: Geoffrey Stokes,John Bradley

This best-selling text has been revised to reflect the requirements of the 17th Edition of the IEEWiring Regulations (BS 7671: 2008). It includes essential information on the new rules applied to special installations or locations, such as bathrooms, swimming pool locations, camping/caravan sites, marinas, exhibition and show locations, solar photovoltaic power supply systems, and floor and ceiling heating systems, amongst others. It presents clear explanations on inspection, testing, certification and reporting, test instruments and test methods, as well as covering: electricity, the law, standards and codes of practice; assessment of general characteristics; protection against electric shock, thermal effects, overcurrent, undervoltage and overvoltage; isolation and switching; the common rules of equipment selection; switchgear, protective devices and other equipment; wiring systems (including the external influences on them and cable installation methods); protective conductors, earthing and protective bonding; supplies for safety services; the smaller installation, and; specialised installations, such as outdoor lighting, installations in churches, multi-occupancy blocks of flats. These topics are addressed with pertinent regulation numbers, and a useful appendix lists the relevant Standards. Background guidance and worked examples are provided where appropriate. Like the earlier editions of this text, this new edition will be a useful aid for designers, installers and verifiers of electrical installations, students of the industry wishing to gain better understanding of the many facets of electrical safety, and ‘duty holders’ as defined by the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470742852

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9780470742853

The Comeback

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

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The Comeback

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

Franklin Roosevelt contracted polio in the summer of 1921, resulting in permanent paralysis from the waist down. One year later, he went back to work. Noted historian Geoffrey C. Ward, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Parkman Prize and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, who is himself a polio survivor, investigates the courage and character of the man who became the greatest president of the twentieth century. “The Comeback,” a selection from A First-Class Temperament, the second volume in Ward’s monumental biography that began with Before the Trumpet, is the story of one extraordinary man’s struggle to regain his feet and reenter public life. Before his illness, FDR’s political future had seemed bright. He knew that pity was poison, that if the public understood the extent of his disability his career would be at an end. Roosevelt, therefore, had to teach himself the impossible: how to walk—or seem to walk—again. This is that journey, following the future president from his disastrous attempt to return to his law office to his triumphant march down the aisle at the 1924 Democratic National Convention, where, leaning on his crutches, he delivered the triumphant “Happy Warrior” speech for ill-fated presidential candidate Al Smith and was hailed as a hero. It was FDR’s new beginning. An eBook short.

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Vintage

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1101873655

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Matthew's Tears

By: Geoffrey Stokes

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Matthew's Tears

By: Geoffrey Stokes

Matthew is born in 1974 and his proud father, Geoffrey, takes him to their family doctor for his first triple antigen vaccination. Within 24 hours, Matthew begins to incessantly convulse. This is a time when no one questions their doctor, their word is sacred. Nothing can be done to stop Matthew’s fits, and the doctors only say they are continuously causing more and more brain damage. Geoffrey blames himself and descends into a self-destructive pattern of behaviour, causing his life to spiral downward and out of his control.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398422517

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9781398422513

The Roosevelts

An Intimate History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

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The Roosevelts

An Intimate History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

An extraordinarily vivid and personal portrait of America's greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation--the tie-in volume to the PBS documentary to air in the fall of 2014.

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Knopf

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0307700232

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9780307700230

Crerar’s Lieutenants

Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939-45

By: Geoffrey Hayes

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Crerar’s Lieutenants

Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939-45

By: Geoffrey Hayes

In 1943, General Harry Crerar penned a memorandum in which he noted that there was still much confusion as to “what constitutes an ‘Officer.’” His words reflected the army’s preoccupation with creating an ideal officer who would not only meet the immediate demands of war but also be able to conform to notions of social class and masculinity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and exploring the issue of leadership through new lenses, this book looks at how the army selected and trained its junior officers after 1939 to embody the new ideal. It finds that these young men – through the mentors they copied, the correspondence they left, even the songs they sang – practised a “temperate heroism” that distinguished them from the idealized, heroic visions of officership from the First World War. Fascinating and highly original, this book sheds new light on the challenges many junior officers faced during the Second World War – not only on the battlefield but from Canadians’ often conflicted views about social class and gender.

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UBC Press

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0774834862

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9780774834865

Ken Burns's The Civil War Deluxe eBook (Enhanced Edition)

An Illustrated History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward,Ric Burns,Ken Burns

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Ken Burns's The Civil War Deluxe eBook (Enhanced Edition)

An Illustrated History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward,Ric Burns,Ken Burns

Combining video and audio from Ken Burns’s beloved film with animated maps and hundreds of images—rare photographs as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps in full color—this deluxe eBook brings the Civil War to life in a new way. The acclaimed, best-selling companion volume to the celebrated PBS series—the highest-rated series in the history of public television—has now been enhanced to create one of the richest eBook experiences available today. This new edition includes: • Nearly an hour of video and audio from the original film. We get wonderful footage re-creating what life was like during the war, Shelby Foote’s peerless storytelling and analysis, and informed commentary from other prominent historians. • Completely new and original animated maps of the three days at Gettysburg that make it easier than ever to follow this legendary and complicated battle. • Hundreds of illustrations carefully placed to maximize the reading experience without impeding the narrative flow of the text. As we mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, this deluxe eBook allows us to better understand and appreciate the greatest challenge our nation has ever faced.

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Knopf

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0307700224

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9780307700223

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An Unfinished Experiment in Living : Australian Houses 1950-65

By: Geoffrey London,Philip Goad,Conrad Hamann

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An Unfinished Experiment in Living : Australian Houses 1950-65

By: Geoffrey London,Philip Goad,Conrad Hamann

Architect-designed houses of the period 1950-65 proposed an innovative response to the social, economic, and climatic conditions of post-war Australia. At the same time they embraced the aesthetic, technological, and egalitarian aspirations of modern architecture. An Unfinished Experiment in Living traces the emergence of this architectural phenomenon in Australia, documenting the full range of its expression: from the postwar optimism of the early 1950s through to the affluence of the 1960s. It is a catalogue of the most significant houses of the period. It includes comprehensive plans and period photographs of 150 houses from around Australia, dating from a time when the great Australian dream was the single family house. This book puts forward new research founded on the premise that the most significant houses of the 1950s and 60s represent an unfinished and undervalued experiment in modern living. Issues such as the open plan, the changing nature of the family, the embrace of advances in technology, the use of the courtyard, and the orientation of the house to capture sun and privacy, were valuable and critical lessons. This is a compelling reminder of their continuing relevance. [Subject: Architecture, Design, Australian History, Sociology]

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University of Western Australia Press

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1742586694

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9781742586694

AAOS Comprehensive Orthopaedic Review 4

By: Geoffrey Marecek

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AAOS Comprehensive Orthopaedic Review 4

By: Geoffrey Marecek

With its sweeping coverage of core knowledge across all orthopaedic specialties, AAOS Comprehensive Orthopaedic Review 4 helps you prepare for exams, retain information, and master the knowledge you need for success in clinical practice. Edited by Geoffrey S. Marecek, MD, FAAOS and a team of board-certified section editors, this 3-volume study set effectively prepares you for the Orthopaedic In-Training Examination® (OITE®), the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) Board Certification exam, and other tests, all in a convenient, user-friendly format. Organized by specialty, each of the 151 chapters in volumes 1 and 2 is packed with color images, illustrations, tables, and charts to support the material and help you retain the information. Volume 3 contains more than 450 multiple-choice companion study questions, including the preferred response with additional discussion and explanation of the topics.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975213416

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9781975213411

Golf Architecture, Vol I

A Worldwide Perspective

By: Cornish, Geoffrey S.

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Golf Architecture, Vol I

A Worldwide Perspective

By: Cornish, Geoffrey S.

Leading golf architects from 15 countries present their ideas, providing a much-needed international assessment of the principles and practices of golf architecture.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455605050

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9781455605057

Eisenhower

By: Geoffrey Perret

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Eisenhower

By: Geoffrey Perret

This new, in-depth life of Eisenhower offers fresh perspectives, not only on World War II and the Korean War but also on the Cold War, the civil rights movement, McCarthyism, the U-2 crisis and Vietnam. Geoffrey Perret's Eisenhower gives us, for the first time, the whole man. It brings together a huge amount of material, much of it made available to researchers only in recent years. The result is nothing less than an original, authoritative and provocative portrait of Eisenhower, as both soldier and president. Far from being the easygoing and pliant figure often depicted by his critics, Eisenhower is revealed here as a complex, tough-minded and highly capable man, one who rose to the top of the world's most competitive profession, the modern military. His career as a soldier would prove to be an excellent preparation for most, though not all, of the major challenges he faced as America's thirty-fourth president. Eisenhower's letters and diaries—many of them never seen by previous biographers—have contributed profoundly to this groundbreaking work. So, too, have dozens of interviews with people who knew him well. These fresh sources have made it possible to resolve many intriguing questions that have, until now, been matters only of speculation and rumor: Did he have an affair with Kay Summersby, his wartime driver? Why did he have so much trouble with Field-Marshal Montgomery? Did the Columbia University trustees appoint him by accident, as campus whispers claimed, in a bungled attempt to offer the university presidency to his brother Milton? Just how did he bring the Korean War to an end within months of becoming president? What did he really think of Richard Nixon? Geoffrey Perret, the author of Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas MacArthur, as well as There's a War to Be Won, an acclaimed history of the United States Army in World War II, is uniquely qualified to write this new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower, a work that is worthy of its remarkable and controversial subject.

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Random House

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0375504702

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9780375504709

Mark Twain

By: Geoffrey C. Ward,Dayton Duncan

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Mark Twain

By: Geoffrey C. Ward,Dayton Duncan

Here the master storytellers Geoffrey Ward, Ken Burns, and Dayton Duncan give us the first fully illustrated biography of Mark Twain, American literature's touchstone, its funniest and most inventive figure.".

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0375405615

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Jack

A Life Like No Other

By: Geoffrey Perret

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Jack

A Life Like No Other

By: Geoffrey Perret

Jack is both the first comprehensive one-volume biography of JFK and the first account of his life based on the extensive documentary record that has finally become available, including personal diaries, taped conversations from the White House, recently declassified government documents, extensive family correspondence, and crucial interviews sealed for nearly forty years. Jack provides a much-needed perspective on Kennedy’s bewilderingly complex personality, presents a compelling account of the volatile relationship between Jack and Jackie (including her attempt to divorce him, move to Hollywood, and become a film star), and reveals how JFK forged the modern political campaign and, once in the White House, modernized the presidency. Jack: A Life Like No Other is a book like no other. Here, at last, John F. Kennedy seems to step off the page in all his vitality, charm, and originality.

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037576125X

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9780375761256

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