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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. After the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets. Jeffrey Toobin details how McVeigh's principles and tactics have flourished in the decades since his death in 2001, reaching an apotheosis on January 6 when hundreds of rioters stormed the Capitol. Based on nearly a million previously unreleased tapes, photographs, and documents, including detailed communications between McVeigh...
3) Exes and o's
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A romance novel-obsessed social media influencer revisits her exes on her hunt for true love in this romantic comedy. Romance book connoisseur Tara Chen has had her heart broken ten times by ten different men-all of whom dumped her because of her "stage-five clinger" tendencies. Nevertheless, Tara is determined to find The One. The only problem? Classic meet-cutes are dead, thanks to modern dating apps. So Tara decides to revisit her exes in hopes...
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Provides information on the effects of climate change, including some of the human activities that are responsible for climate change, how climate change affects the lives of all who live in an area, and how people all around the world can mitigate and reduce the impact of climate change in their areas and also adapt, or adjust, to the changes.
Author
Series
Wishin' and hopin' volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
A "tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it"--
"From the New York Times bestselling author of WISHIN' AND HOPIN', a remarkably evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life--and the women who have changed it--in the American Century"--
Author
Publisher
Audio Renaissance
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Easy, prescriptive advice on how to change anybody from New York Times bestselling author David LiebermanIf you've ever wanted to change someone in your life--to make him or her more generous, less angry, more romantic, or less impatient--this is the book for you. With these clear, prescriptive techniques, How to Change Anybody tells you how to: - Inspire loyalty- Eliminate predjudice in anyone- Turn anyone's mood around fast- Stop stubborn behavior...
11) Your hidden superpower: the kindness that makes you unbeatable at work and connects you with anyone
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Leadership
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Kindness isn't merely about getting along with people and being nice. It's a game-changer in business, the door opener to fulfillment, and the key to authenticity and confidence. It's also a superpower that can be honed through developing a daily practice of kindness as a lifestyle and is especially important in these divisive times.
Author
Publisher
Wise Ink Creative Pub
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
We make our biggest impressions when we are not trying to be impressive. The words we say or don't say, the things we do or don't do, and the ways we react or don't react can have a tremendous influence on those around us. In Silent Impact, award-winning broadcaster Joe Schmit tells stories of real people and the ways in which they had profound influence on others in daily life. He points to simple, powerful lessons in the stories, and will inspire...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A gripping narrative of the second and final war of independence that secured the nation's permanence and established its claim to the entire continent, by the author of the enormously successful and acclaimed Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution.This dramatic account of the War of 1812 fills a surprising gap in the popular literature of the nation's formative years. It is this war, followed closely on the War of Independence, that...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Plato came from a wealthy, connected Athenian family and lived a comfortable upper-class lifestyle until he met an odd little man named Socrates, who showed him a new world of ideas and ideals. Socrates taught Plato that a man must use reason to attain wisdom, and that the life of a lover of wisdom, a philosopher, was the pinnacle of achievement. Plato dedicated himself to living that ideal and went on to create a school, his famed Academy, to teach...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist-he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the course of the five-year journey around the globe in often...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
engage with chaos to find imaginative new solutions and live more dynamically. Life is impossible to control--instead of fighting this truth, Seven Life Lessons of Chaos shows you how to accept, celebrate, and use it to live life to its fullest.
18) Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Presents a narrative history of the United States from 1890 to 1910, exploring such major themes as nationalism, racism, industrialization, and imperialism as reflected in the actions and writings of the era's two most famous figures.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilsons entry into World War One and Lenins Bolshevik Revolution. In April 1917 Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and justice; thrust the United States into World War One in order to make the world safe for democracy only to see his dreams...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The Civil War is most often understood as an internal conflict, one fought by American soldiers over issues uniquely American in origin and consequence. But in The Cause of All Nations, distinguished historian Don H. Doyle reframes our understanding of the Civil War, describing it as a conflict that was shaped by international forces--and which had major international repercussions. Doyle shows that, rather than being an internal struggle, the Civil...
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