First ladies of the united states

First Ladies of the United States

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United States of Socialism

For those who witnessed the global collapse of socialism, its resurrection in the twenty-first century comes as a surprise, even a shock. How can soci

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United States and the First World War

Now in its second edition, The United States and the First World War draws on the most recent scholarship to examine the significance of World War I i

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United States Presidential Election of 2020

This edited volume is the first comprehensive text to provide an evidence-based (i.e. emphasizing the practical application of the findings of the bes

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History of Mathematics in the United States and Canada

Offers a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics in the US and Canada. This first volume of a two-volume work takes the reader from th

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Fighting for the United States, Executed in Britain

Explores a forgotten chapter in the history of the Second World War. The first book ever published to contain a detailed account of every American mil

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Right-Wing Extremism in Canada and the United States

This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in th

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United Kingdoms

The United Kingdom is weakening. Alvin Jackson examines the UK in the light of the experience of similar union states elsewhere, offering the first su

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Count the Dead

Examining the development of death registration systems in the United States - from the first mortality census in 1850 to the development of the death

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Making History: The First World War

Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new. This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully reali...

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Making History: The First World War (PC)

Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new.This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully re...

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Penguin Readers Level 3: The Extraordinary Life of Michelle Obama (ELT Graded Reader) - neuveden

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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Twice-Divided Nation

The first thoroughly interdisciplinary study to examine how the transatlantic relationship between the United States and Britain helped shape the conf

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Secret History of the Five Eyes

The first published account of the Five Eyes, the elite spy network created by Britain and the United States that industrialised espionage operations.

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Secret History of the Five Eyes

The first published account of the Five Eyes, the elite spy network created by Britain and the United States that industrialised espionage operations.

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Secret History of the Five Eyes

The first published account of the Five Eyes, the elite spy network created by Britain and the United States that industrialised espionage operations.

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Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing

This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between Pre

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White Man's Club

In this volume, schools for Native children are examined within the broad framework of race relations in the United States for the first time. Jacquel

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On the Waves of TSF

The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) and Karel Teige (1900–1951). Similarly, we should preface the 1925 collection Na vlnách TSF (On the Waves of TSF) with the names of these two authors, leading representatives of the Czech avantgarde between the two World Wars and f...

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U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation

U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation is the first collection to examine the history of museums in the United States through the le

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Murder in the Neighbourhood

Through the Gate explores the story of the first recorded mass shooting in the United States.

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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World - Zakaria Fareed

Anotace: Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11 September 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of all - Covid-19. Each was an asymmetric threat, set in motion by something seemingly small, and different from anything the world had experienced before. Lenin is supposed to have said, `There are decades when nothing h...

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Sense of Beauty

The editor of this new edition, John McGormick, reminds us that The Sense of Beauty is the first work in aesthetics written in the United States. Sant

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Long Shadow of Default

Rethinking the causes and consequences of BritainÂ’s default on its First World War debts to the United States of America

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Peter Blume

Russian American artist Peter Blume was one of the earliest practitioners of surrealist painting in the United States, and his elaborately detailed and dreamlike compositions helped define American Modernist art. Blume worked out the themes of his ambitious large-scale paintings through dozens of drafts in different media, slowly developing layers of allegory and imagery ...

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The Jacket

"The Jacket" is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United States as "The Star Rover"). It is a story of reincarnation. A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving l

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Generals in the Making

This book is is first comprehensive history of te United States' World War II generals between the wars, covering not only their lives and careers of

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Biomass in the Bioeconomy

This book discusses the role of biomass in the bioeconomy and focuses on the European Union and the United States, as these two regions were the first

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Women Who Run With the Wolves - Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Anotace: "Women Who Run With The Wolves isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom and love. An oracle from one who knows.' Alice Walker In the classic Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us about the 'wild woman', the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power. For c...

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On the Waves of TSF / Na vlnách TSF - Jaroslav Seifert

<p>The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) and Karel Teige (1900–1951). Similarly, we should preface the 1925 collection Na vlnách TSF (On the Waves of TSF) with the names of these two authors, leading representatives of the Czech avantgarde between the two World W...

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On the Waves of TSF / Na vlnách TSF

The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) and Karel Teige (1900–1951). Similarly, we should preface the 1925 collection Na vlnách TSF (On the Waves of TSF) with the names of these two authors, leading representatives of the Czech avantgarde between the two World Wars and f...

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Countdown to Darkness: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume II

Anotace: The book´s first chapter contains new revelations about how Oswald was a witting false defector to the USSR in a CIA plan to surface a KGB mole in the CIA. The second volume in a series on the assassination of President Kennedy, "Countdown to Darkness" describes events during a dangerous quickening of the Cold War. The race for a long-range delivery system for n...

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American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War

This new Battleground Europe title is the first in the series to examine the part of the United States in the Great War.

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ACTS OF WAR

A group of terrorists destroy a dam in Turkey, threatening the water supply of their homeland. It's the first step in a plan: force all-out war in the Middle East. This will draw elite troops out of the capital of Damascus, leaving the Syrian president unprotected- and an easy target for assassination.What the terrorists don't know is that a new Regional Op-Center is now ...

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Killing of Osama Bin Laden

Electrifying investigation of White House lies about the assassination of Osama bin LadenIn 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama's first term and played a major ...

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Acts Of War - Tom Clancy

Anotace: A group of terrorists destroy a dam in Turkey, threatening the water supply of their homeland. It's the first step in a plan: force all-out war in the Middle East. This will draw elite troops out of the capital of Damascus, leaving the Syrian president unprotected- and an easy target for assassination.<br><br>What the terrorists don't know ...

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Penguin Readers Level 3: The Extraordinary Life of Michelle Obama (ELT Graded Reader)

<p>Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducin...

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Acts Of War - Tom Clancy

<p>A group of terrorists destroy a dam in Turkey, threatening the water supply of their homeland. It's the first step in a plan: force all-out war in the Middle East. This will draw elite troops out of the capital of Damascus, leaving the Syrian president unprotected- and an easy target for assassination.<br /><br />What the terrorists don't know is that...

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Countdown to Darkness: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume II - John M. Newman

<p>The book’s first chapter contains new revelations about how Oswald was a witting false defector to the USSR in a CIA plan to surface a KGB mole in the CIA. The second volume in a series on the assassination of President Kennedy, “Countdown to Darkness” describes events during a dangerous quickening of the Cold War. The race for a long-range delivery system for nu...

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The Prophet, 1. vydání - Kahlil Gibran

<p>One of the most beloved spiritual classics of our time, Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, has sold millions of copies in more than forty languages since it was first published in 1923. The Prophet contains powerful words of wisdom on such essential subjects as marriage, children, friendship, work, and pleasure--words that readers from around the world have found...

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To the Castle and Back - Václav Havel

<p>From the former president of the Czech Republic comes this first-hand account of his years in office and the transition to democracy following the fall of Communism. A renowned playwright, Vaclav Havel became one of Czechoslovakia's most prominent dissidents under Communist rule and the president after the Velvet Revolution, making him a key player in European po...

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Dying of Politeness: A Memoir - Davis Geena

Anotace: `I adored this book. It`s so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read` Emma Thompson A Times Film and Theatre Book of the Year 2022 From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, Dying of Politeness is the candid, surprising tale of her journey from her epically polite childh...

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Dying of Politeness: A Memoir - Geena Davis

<p>'I adored this book. It's so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read' Emma Thompson A Times Film and Theatre Book of the Year 2022 From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, Dying of Politeness is the candid, surprising tale of her journey from her epically polite c...

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Killing of Osama Bin Laden - Hersh Seymour M.

Anotace: In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama`s first term and played a major part in his reelection victory of the following year. But much of the story of ...

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Killing of Osama Bin Laden - Seymour M. Hersh

<p>In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama's first term and played a major part in his reelection victory of the following year. But much of the story of t...

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America Is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo

<p>How many lives can one person lead in a single lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America, disowned by her parents in the Philippines, she's already on her third. Her uncle, Pol, who has offered her a fresh start and a place to stay in the Bay Area, knows not to ask about the first and second. And his younger wife, Paz, has learned enough about the might and ...

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On The Road, 1. vydání - Jack Kerouac

<p>Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stewart (Twilight), Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen....

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Chloe and the Kaishao Boys - Coyiuto Mae

Anotace: When Dimple Met Rishi meets Loveboat, Taipei in this hilarious YA rom-com about a Chinese Filipina girl in Manila whose father sets her up on a marathon of arranged dates in hopes of convincing her to stay close to home for college."A sweet and refreshing story about family, first love, and chasing your dreams. The way Coyiuto writes romance will completely swee...

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Nepantla

The first major literary anthology for queer poets of color in the United States

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Becoming - Michelle Obamová

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States

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The Choice, 1. vydání - Edith Eva Egerová

THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERby Edith Eger, as seen on BBC BreakfastEven in hell, hope can flower'I'll be forever changed by her story' - Oprah Winfrey 'One of those rare and eternal stories you don't want to end' - Desmond Tutu'A masterpiece of holocaust literature. Her memoir, like her life, is extraordinary, harrowing and inspiring in equal measure' – The ...

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The New York Times The Complete Front Pages 1851-2 - Bill Keller

<p>New edition of the national blockbuster and New York Times bestseller—with more than a dozen new front pages, including Obama's election and inauguration, his first trip abroad, the financial meltdown, Madoff, and more. One of the most popular gift books of the 2008 holiday season now includes the history-making Obama front pages and so much more. The book and th...

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Ansel Adams in the Canadian Rockies - Ansel Adams

<p>The first book of Ansel Adam's early photographs of the Canadian Rockies.</p> <p>'These mountains are breathtaking - utterly different than anything we have seen. The peaks and forest and 'tone' fulfill almost every ideal I have had of what 'my' mountains could be. . . These are the great mountains we dream about.'- Ansel Adams to his wife Virginia, 1...

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The Queen : Quotes to live by - Hippo! Orange

<p>Queen Elizabeth II is a force of stability in a turbulent, changing world. Revered for her calm dignity and sense of duty, the queen has rarely put a foot wrong in her 68 years - and counting - on the British throne. Her extraordinary reign has seen many changes: in 1953, the year of her Coronation, Winston Churchill was prime minister, Harry Truman President of ...

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The Queen : Quotes to live by - Orange Hippo!, Orange Hippo!

Anotace: Queen Elizabeth II is a force of stability in a turbulent, changing world. Revered for her calm dignity and sense of duty, the queen has rarely put a foot wrong in her 68 years - and counting - on the British throne. Her extraordinary reign has seen many changes: in 1953, the year of her Coronation, Winston Churchill was prime minister, Harry Truman President of...

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Jens Risom: A Seat at the Table - Vicky Lowry

<p> </p> <p>The first and only monograph on the life and work of the iconic Danish-American mid-century furniture designer Jens Risom – an unsung hero of Mid-Century Modern design</p> <p>Jens Risom, a key figure in mid-century modern design, was one of the first designers to introduce Scandinavian design to the United States and his highly co...

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Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval - Gaia Vince

<p>Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, the Zócalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing 'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' ObserverAn urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how ...

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City Hall

The first book to feature striking contemporary images of the most architecturally significant city halls in the United States.

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Imogen Cunningham - A Retrospective

Thoroughly researched and beautifully produced, this catalogue complements the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States of Imogen Cunnin

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Free, Melania

The first behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most enigmatic first lady in United States history, from CNN's East Wing reporter.

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