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In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled.
With elegance and pathos, historian Mark Thompson relates the saga of the Italian front, the nationalist...
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Don't be daunted by a challenging economy and fierce competition. Even in the toughest environment, innovative, highly profitable businesses abound and yours can be one of them.
Bestselling business authority Mark Thompson and international success expert Brian Tracy join forces to show you how great leadership, great people, and great products are the key to building a phenomenally successful business.
In Now, Build a Great Business!, you'll learn...
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California cuisine became an international culinary phenomenon in the 1970s, emphasizing fresh, seasonal ingredients, in combinations inspired by a diverse array of ethnic traditions. Vintage California Cuisine, with a selection of 300 recipes reprinted from 13 of the first cookbooks published in the state, shows how the pieces of that culinary puzzle began to emerge more than a century ago. The recipes include: Walnut Catsup and Grape Pickles from...
4) Vintage Vegetarian Cuisine: Early Advocates of a Vegetable Diet and Some of Their Recipes, 1699-1935
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For centuries, advocates of a vegetarian diet have been promoting the virtues of their dietary practices – and publishing recipes to show adherents and skeptics alike how to prepare appealing, healthy meals without meat. Vintage Vegetarian Cuisine traces that campaign through 15 landmark vegetarian cookbooks, starting with a collection of salad recipes from London in 1699 and ending with a soybean cookbook published in the American heartland during...
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Can you take a shower in space? Why is a space suit important to wear outside of spacecraft? These questions and many more likely occur to kids when they hear about people traveling to space. This book is ready with answers-as well as 12 investigations to ready readers for surviving in space! Key science concepts are included in the main text while step-by-step instructions guide readers through each investigation. A dynamic design and age-appropriate...
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Today, it's possible to see deep into the universe. In order to achieve this, scientists had to work hard understanding complicated ideas about how things work in space. Readers of this book get to practice being scientists while taking part in 12 investigations that will not only teach then why a planet's spin and orbit matter but also how scientists think about questions they want to answer. Step-by-step instructions guide readers through each investigation,...
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It seems like scientists are discovering something new every day about outer space! However, there are some scientific ideas that they're sure of, like the speed of light and how planets form. In this book, readers can take on 12 different investigations to learn more about outer space and how it connects to science they'll likely encounter in a science classroom. A dynamic design and fresh perspective from an expert astronomer make this a must-have...
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With the many companies now working on rockets and ways to bring people into orbit, it's never been more possible to realize a dream of going to space! Both future astronauts and space tourists benefit from learning more about how rockets work. In this fascinating volume, readers take on 12 investigations that help show why gravity is important, why rockets are shaped the way they are, and how chemical reactions happen. Written by an expert astronomer,...
9) American Character: The Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest
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Charles Fletcher Lummis began his spectacular career in 1884 by walking from Ohio to start a new job at the three-year old Los Angeles Times. By the time of his death in 1928, the 3,500 mile "tramp across the continent" was just a footnote in his astonishingly varied career: crusading journalist, author of nearly two dozen books, editor of the influential political and literary magazine Out West, Los Angeles city librarian, preserver of Spanish missions,...
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There's a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson argues that one of the most significant causes of the crisis is the way our public language has changed.
Enough Said tells the story of how we got from the language...
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Are you prepared to set out on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure? "Wheels and Wilderness: The Ultimate RV Guide to National Park Adventures" is your pass to an amazing and unique tour of some of the most magnificent natural sites in the United States.
This all-inclusive guide is your reliable travel companion in the RV world, providing a plethora of information and insights to assist you in organizing, getting ready, and experiencing the outdoors....
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A Clear and Concise Exploration of the Christian Doctrine of Scripture
The Bible is the written word of the living God. He speaks through this word, working in and through human agents as he reveals himself to his people. His word is trustworthy, yet many Christians struggle to articulate why they believe that to be true. Centered in the words of Scripture and especially the teaching of Jesus himself, this volume unpacks the doctrine of Scripture...
13) El Greco und ich
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Sommer 1968: J. J. und sein bester Freund Tony "El Greco" sind zehn Jahre alt und unzertrennlich. Ihr geheimes Revier ist ein stillgelegter Hafen - hier können sie unbemerkt geklaute Zigaretten rauchen, den Möwen nachschauen und Pläne für die Zukunft schmieden. Immer öfter jedoch grätscht die Realität in die jugendlichen Träume; und während eines Roadtrips entlang der Ostküste zeigt sich den Jungen eine bisher ungekannte Seite der USA, die...
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"Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut, traveling through the universe on your very own space mission? What would it be like to tour the solar system, visiting the sun and the planets, taking in everything from moons to asteroid belts along the way? What would you see, and how would you feel? What would you eat? How would you navigate and produce fuel? How would you survive? On this epic voyage of discovery, astronomer Mark Thompson takes you...
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The role of the Royal Engineers in the Peninsular War has long been neglected and often misunderstood, and Mark Thompson's history is the first full account of their work and of the contribution they made throughout the conflict. He draws on his unrivalled collection of the engineers' letters and diaries in order to tell, in vivid detail, the story of the war as they experienced it. His narrative describes their role in all the major operations between...
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A Clear and Concise Exploration of the Christian Doctrine of Scripture
The Bible is the written word of the living God. He speaks through this word, working in and through human agents as he reveals himself to his people. His word is trustworthy, yet many Christians struggle to articulate why they believe that to be true. Centered in the words of Scripture and especially the teaching of Jesus himself, this volume unpacks the doctrine of Scripture...
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How does Martin Luther King, Jr., understand race philosophically and how did this understanding lead him to develop an ontological conception of racist police violence?
In this important new work, Mark Christian Thompson attempts to answer these questions, examining ontology in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy. Specifically, the book reads King through 1920s German academic debates between Martin Heidegger, Rudolf Bultmann, Hans Jonas, Carl...
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This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field's debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten tradition of Black singularity.
Phenomenal Blackness examines the changing interdisciplinary investments of key mid-century Black writers and thinkers, including the growing interest in German philosophy and critical theory. Mark Christian Thompson analyzes this shift in intellectual focus across the post-war...
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Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.
Anti-Music examines the critical, literary, and political responses to African American jazz music in interwar Germany. During this time, jazz was the subject of overt political debate between left-wing and right-wing interests: for the left, jazz marked the death knell...