Reach for the Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space
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As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they...
Little Children
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A group of parents, trapped in middle-class stability, deal with marriage, kids and their suburban...
Find Me at Willoughby Close
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Welcome to Willoughby Close… a charming cluster of cozy cottages, each with a story to tell and a...
When Life Strikes the President: Scandal, Death, and Illness in the White House
Jeffrey A. Engel and Thomas J. Knock
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What happens when life, so to speak, strikes the President of the United States? How do presidents...
The Architecture of Hope: Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF HOPE focuses on an exciting building project that has been underway since the...
Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
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Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even...
Surnames, DNA, and Family History
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This book combines linguistic and historical approaches with the latest techniques of DNA analysis...
Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago
Richard F. Townsend and Elizabeth Pope
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A stunning survey of the indigenous art, architecture, and spiritual beliefs of the Americas, from...
Hatchet
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Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane...
The Actors' Crucible: Port Talbot and the Making of Burton, Hopkins, Sheen and All the Others
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The town of Port Talbot has long been seen (quite literally) as synonymous with the steel industry....