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Sixth Column

By: Robert A. Heinlein

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After the U.S. is conquered, an enclave of brilliant misfits leads a rebellion against near-impossible odds. The totalitarian East has triumphed in a massive invasion and the United States has fallen to a dictatorial superpower bent on total domination. That power is consolidating its grip via concentration camps, police state tactics, and a total monopoly upon the very thoughts of the conquered populace. A tiny enclave of scientists and soldiers survives, unbeknownst to America's new rulers. It's six against six million¾but those six happen to include a scientific genius, a master of subterfuge and disguise who learned his trade as a lawyer-turned-hobo, and a tough-minded commander who knows how to get the best out of his rag-tag assortment of American discontents, wily operators, and geniuses. It's going to take technological savvy and a propaganda campaign that would leave Madison Avenue aghast, but the U.S. will rise again. The counterinsurgency for freedom is on, and defeat is not an option. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Baen Publishing Enterprises

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ISBN 10

1618248413

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9781618248411

Scottish Sporting Legends

By: Robert Philip

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Scottish Sporting Legends

By: Robert Philip

Scotland may not have won a World Cup (yet!), but many of the country’s sportsmen and women are revered as global legends, including Olympic and US Open champion Andy Murray and winner of six Olympic gold medals, Sir Chris Hoy. In football, the likes of Denis Law, ‘Slim’ Jim Baxter and Jimmy ‘Jinky’ Johnstone would not have looked out of place in the canary yellow of Brazil, while managers Sir Matt Busby, Bill Shankly and Jock Stein have become part of football folklore, as has Sir Alex Ferguson in more recent times. Amazingly, Scots have reached the top in just about every major sport: Jim Clark and Sir Jackie Stewart in Formula One; Andy Murray in tennis; Ken Buchanan and Benny Lynch in the boxing ring; Chris Hoy in cycling; sprinters Allan Wells and Eric Liddell on the Olympic track; and, as befits a nation renowned as ‘the home of golf’, Sandy Lyle was recognised as the greatest player on the planet upon winning the Masters in 1988. Scottish sport is the richest of tapestries and in Scottish Sporting Legends the cream of the crop are entertainingly profiled in a revealing collection of pen portraits of stars past and present.

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Random House

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1780571666

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9781780571669

Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others

By: Robert Gottlieb

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Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others

By: Robert Gottlieb

A new collection of immersive essays from the most acclaimed editor of the second half of the twentieth century This new collection from the legendary editor Robert Gottlieb features twenty or so pieces he’s written mostly for The New York Review of Books, ranging from reconsiderations of American writers such as Dorothy Parker, Thornton Wilder, Thomas Wolfe (“genius”), and James Jones, to Leonard Bernstein, Lorenz Hart, Lady Diana Cooper (“the most beautiful girl in the world”), the actor-assassin John Wilkes Booth, the scandalous movie star Mary Astor, and not-yet president Donald Trump. The writings compiled here are as various as they are provocative: an extended probe into the world of post-death experiences; a sharp look at the biopics of transcendent figures such as Shakespeare, Molière, and Austen; a soap opera-ish movie account of an alleged affair between Chanel and Stravinsky; and a copious sampling of the dance reviews he’s been writing for The New York Observer for close to twenty years. A worthy successor to his expansive 2011 collection, Lives and Letters, and his admired 2016 memoir, Avid Reader, Near-Death Experiences displays the same insight and intellectual curiosity that have made Gottlieb, in the words of The New York Times’s Dwight Garner, “the most acclaimed editor of the second half of the twentieth century.”

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374717915

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9780374717919

Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice

By: Philip Booth,Robert Chadburn,Steven Haberman,Dewi James,Zaki Khorasanee,Robert H Plumb,Ben Rickayzen

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Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice

By: Philip Booth,Robert Chadburn,Steven Haberman,Dewi James,Zaki Khorasanee,Robert H Plumb,Ben Rickayzen

In the years since the publication of the best-selling first edition, the incorporation of ideas and theories from the rapidly growing field of financial economics has precipitated considerable development of thinking in the actuarial profession. Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice, Second Edition integrates those changes and presents an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of UK and international actuarial theory, practice and modeling. It describes all of the traditional areas of actuarial activity, but in a manner that highlights the fundamental principles of actuarial theory and practice as well as their economic, financial, and statistical foundations.

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CRC Press

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1420057308

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9781420057300

The Encyclopedia of Old Fishing Lures

Made in North America

By: A. Slade Robert a. Slade,Robert A. Slade

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The Encyclopedia of Old Fishing Lures

Made in North America

By: A. Slade Robert a. Slade,Robert A. Slade

Robert A. Slade, after collecting old fishing tackle since 1958 and contributing articles on old fishing lures for a collector magazine for several years started researching and writing books in the 1990's. He published the HISTORY & COLLECTIBLE FISHING TACKLE OF WISCONSIN in 1999 which sold 4,500 copies. Bob realized that even though there have been many books published on the subject of old fishing lures that few books covered any detailed history on the old lure makers. His latest book writing project was nine years in the making and covers over 100 years of lure making history starting in 1875 and covers over 2,500 lures makers throughout all of North America. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OLD FISHING LURES MADE IN NORTH AMERICA is the first publication with extensive history and patent information on old lure makers and the first to include extensive coverage on Canadian lure makers. The author traveled to 11 states and 3 Candian Providences visting collectors homes, newspaper archives, museums and other sources and has taken over 10,000 pictures in preparing the historical stories for these books. The set of books arranges for the individual and company lures makers to appear in alphabetical order. People purchasing these books can buy any one single book, a whole set, or even a book a month if they desire as the books will be printed and shipped on demand. Each book has over 400 pages of text, pictures and collector values with each book containing a table of contents and index as well as a master index for the complete set of books.

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Trafford Publishing

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1425152481

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9781425152482

Montana: A Cultural Medley

By: Robert R. Swartout, Jr.

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Montana: A Cultural Medley

By: Robert R. Swartout, Jr.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts when Montana historian Robert Swartout gathers the fascinating stories of the state’s surprisingly diverse ethnic groups into this thought-provoking collection of essays. Fourteen chapters showcase an African American nightclub in Great Falls, a Japanese American war hero, the founding of a Metís community, Jewish merchants, and Dutch settlement in the Gallatin Valley, as well as stories of Irish, Scots, Chinese, Finns, Mexican Americans, European war brides, and more.

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Farcountry Press

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1560376449

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9781560376446

The Popular History of England. An Illustrated History of Society and Government from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times

Vol. VIII

By: Charles Robert Knight

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The Popular History of England. An Illustrated History of Society and Government from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times

Vol. VIII

By: Charles Robert Knight

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3385504937

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9783385504936

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Sixth Column

Sixth Column

Scottish Sporting Legends

Scottish Sporting Legends

Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others

Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others

Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice

Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice

The Encyclopedia of Old Fishing Lures

The Encyclopedia of Old Fishing Lures

Montana: A Cultural Medley

Montana: A Cultural Medley

The Popular History of England. An Illustrated History of Society and Government from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times

The Popular History of England. An Illustrated History of Society and Government from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times

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