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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age's uniquely devastating despots-and how and why other countries found better paths. The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death....
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Sparky Sweets, Ph.D. presents Thug Notes, the outrageously funny, ultra-sharp guide to sixteen of literature's most beloved classics - including The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride & Prejudice and Things Fall Apart. Having already taught millions around the world, Dr. Sweets makes it easy to love and understand these important literary works. With hilarious character breakdowns, masterful analyses, witty observations, and eye-popping...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
How old is the sloth? How do sloths have sex? How did a sloth save Dublin? The answers to these questions, and more, are found in this wonderfully entertaining celebration of the sloth. Walking readers through the sloth's evolutionary history - from the prehistoric ground sloth to modern pygmy - William Hartston reveals the sloth's fascinating journey from maligned mammal to cause célèbre. Playfully peppered with science and filled with factoids,...
Publisher
Imperial War Museum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A documentary film created from footage of World War I from the Imperial War Museum, Geat Britain, and using archival audio from BBC and Imperial War Museum interviews of British servicemen who fought in the war; the filmmakers use modern production techniques, including restoration work, colorizing, sound effects, and voice acting, and retiming of frame rates, to make the experience of ordinary soldiers seem more accessible to contemporary viewers....
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the Gilded Age to the first Red Scare of 1919-1920, the American anarchist movement clashed with some of the nation's most powerful institutions and individuals. Anarchists never comprised more than a small minority the labor movement. Their vision of a world without states, borders, laws, organized religion, or private property proved far too radical for even the most open-minded liberals of their day-particularly when some anarchists advocated...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The struggle to preserve the Republic has never been easy or without perils. The rise of conflicting political parties, which the founders opposed, and President John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts repressing First Amendment rights made Franklin's observation at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention--"a republic, if you can keep it"--seem prescient. In the twentieth century, America endured numerous struggles: economic depression, World...
8) The Sweeney
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Armed and dangerous, the Sweeney Flying Squad are London's elite crime fighting force. Led by legendary Detective Jack Regan, they are not afraid to use old school, bare-knuckle tactics to bring down the modern underworld. Now, with a master criminal on the loose and a major bank heist in progress, Regan will do whatever it takes to get the job done, even if that means defying the orders of his boss and taking the law into his own hands.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The birth of the Royal Air Force during World War I marked a pivotal moment in modern military and political history. With Europe's western front frozen in a bloody stalemate of trench warfare, both sides sought some means of directly attacking enemy resources and morale. The new technologies of air power were used at first for reconnaissance of enemy positions for artillery strikes. By 1917 German bombers had begun raids on British cities, including...
10) I am a cat
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Japan's beloved literary masterpiece brought to life in manga form!Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society in early 20th century Tokyo. Written with biting wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a rather cynical stray kitten. He finds his way into the home of an English teacher, where his running commentary on the follies and foibles of the people...
Publisher
Universe Publishing, a Division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From the film critics of The New York Times come these uncut, original reviews of the most popular and influential movies ever made -- from the Talkies to blockbusters like Chicago and The Wizard of Oz from timeless classics like Casablanca and Notorious, to beloved foreign films by Truffaut and Kurosawa, Fellini and Almodovar. The reviews reflect Hollywood history at its best. In addition, this volume includes: Full cast and production credits for...
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