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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the ... - Colin Woodard - Google Books
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The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the worldIn the early eighteenth century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including…
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Engineering in History - Richard Shelton Kirby - Google Books
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With a minimum of technical detail, and in a highly readable style, this presents a fascinating overview of the development of engineering in Western civilization, from its origins to the twentieth century. The book is organized around the authors'…
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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the ... - Colin Woodard - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=W5sIuoBrFwYC&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109
The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the worldIn the early eighteenth century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including…
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Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro - André Soares - Google Books
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The first Latin American actor to become a superstar, Ramon Novarro was for years one of Hollywood's top actors. Born Ramon Samaniego to a prominent Mexican family, he arrived in America in 1916, a refugee from civil wars. By the mid-1920s, he had become…
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The Year: Reawakening the legend of cycling's hardest endurance record - Dave Barter - Google Books
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In 1939 British cyclist Tommy Godwin cycled 75,065 miles in a single year. Think about that for a second: that's an average of over 200 miles each day. And it's a mark that still stands after almost eighty years. In The Year, Dave Barter resurrects the…
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Making America: A History of the United States, Volume I: To 1877 - Carol Berkin, Christopher Miller, Robert Cherny, James Gormly - Google Books
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Shaped with a clear political chronology, Making America reflects the variety of individual experiences and kaleidoscope of cultures that is American society. Careful to maintain its emphasis on the importance of social movements, immigrant society, and…
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The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500 - Donald M. Nicol - Google Books
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What kind of lives did women in the Byzantine empire lead? Just how subservient were they in so male-dominated a society? In this collection of biographies Donald M. Nicol uncovers the unexpected fact that in the later years of the empire, at least, some…
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Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency - W. Thomas Smith - Google Books
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Covers CIA terms, operations, and people including the Bay of Pigs, Operation IVY BELLS, mind-control drug testing, and Robert Philip Hanssen. Providing a reference for both casual readers and researchers, this volume contains more than 500 A-to-Z listings…
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Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in ... - Louise A. Breen - Google Books
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This study offers a new interpretation of the Puritan "Antinomian" controversy and a skillful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural significance. Breen argues that controversy both reflected and fostered larger questions of identity that…
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Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro - André Soares - Google Books
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The first Latin American actor to become a superstar, Ramon Novarro was for years one of Hollywood's top actors. Born Ramon Samaniego to a prominent Mexican family, he arrived in America in 1916, a refugee from civil wars. By the mid-1920s, he had become…