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The Definitive Pictorial Chronicle of World War II
1000 Classic, Rare and Unseen Photographs
Eric Good
The Definitive Pictorial Chronicle of World War II charts the greatest event in human history, from the pre-war tensions to the final reckoning; a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 60 million people and defined the political and social landscape of our modern world. Contemporary news reports and over 1500 extraordinary photographs from one of the world’s greatest archives, that of The Daily Mail, evoke the epic scale of the combat.
Pictures tell stories from the theaters of war and battlefields as well as from civilian life, presenting astonishing insight into life during the world’s most devastating military conflict.
A Dictionary of Symbols
Juan Eduardo Cirlot
Translated from the Spanish by Jack Sage
Foreword by Herbert Read
This is the classic reference for studies of symbology. Many of the entries–such as Cross, Dragon, Graphics, Numbers, Serpent, Tree, Water, and Zodiac–can be read as independent essays.
Every Vote is a Prayer
Cathy Cambron
A vote is a kind of prayer about the world we desire for ourselves and our children. —Senator Raphael Warnock
For 250 years Americans have marched and fought, been beaten and jailed, and even died, to win and protect your right to vote. This inspiring history of the voting rights movement in America chronicles those battles from Abraham Lincoln to the present day.
From the Inside Out
Harrowing Escapes from the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center
Erik O. Ronningen
Erik Ronningen was on the 71st floor of the North Tower on September 11, 2001 when American Airlines Flight 767 struck the building. After an incredible, even miraculous journey down through the acrid, smoke-filled building lit by occasional fireballs, Erik tried to get to the Security Command Center in the South Tower. Unable to do so, he was the last person to make it out of the South Tower alive.
Here is the story of his harrowing escape interwoven with the accounts of fourteen others who were lucky enough to be able to recount them.
The Great War: A Pictorial History
Duncan Hill
Rare and unseen photographs of the First World War.
Author and editor Duncan Hill has drawn upon the archives of The Daily Mail provide contemporaneous eyewitness accounts and photographs (many never previously seen) of The Great War.
“The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime,” said British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey in 1914 on the eve of the conflict that plunged Europe into darkness for four long years in which Ypres, Verdun, Gallipoli, and Somme would become household names.
The Great War: Unseen Archives
Robert Hamilton
The Great War—the War to End All Wars—which began 100 years ago, cost 15 million lives, and shaped the modern world. New technologies such as tanks, aircraft, submarines and chemical warfare wrought unimaginable horror throughout Europe, upon combatants and civilians alike, for four years. Comprised of more than a thousand photographs, maps, battle plans and contemporaneous news reports, this book tells the complete story of this devastating war.
How to Break Out of Prison
John Wareham
For ten years, John Wareham, author of the best-selling Secrets of a Corporate Headhunter, has been leading a double life. Four days a week he identifies and develops leaders for major international corporations. On the fifth day he heads to some of New York’s toughest prisons to teach the life altering class that he created for the inmates. To his surprise, John found that many of the negative thinking patterns that led to the incarceration of his students were also pervasive among executives…
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism & Capitalism
George Bernard Shaw
“The world’s most important book since the Bible.” – Ramsay MacDonald
First published in 1928 and addressed to the The Intelligent Woman (specifically his sister-in-law, Lady Mary Stewart Cholomondely), George Bernard Shaw’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism should be read by every American in the twenty-first century who has benefited, or ever will benefit, from Social Security…
Let the Law Catch Up
Thurgood Marshall in His Own Words
Cathy Cambron
A courageous and brilliant lawyer and jurist, Thurgood Marshall won the 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, ending legal racial segregation in America—a significant step in the continuing struggle of Black Americans for equal treatment in their own country. In 1967, Marshall became the first Black Supreme Court justice, and he continues to inspire us decades after his death.
This accessible collection of Marshall’s own words spans his entire career, from his fearless advocacy with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s and 1950s, to his arguments as the first Black solicitor general under LBJ and his Supreme Court opinions and dissents. Introductions to the writings provide historical and legal context.
A Monk Swimming
A Memoir
Malachy McCourt
In this bestselling memoir, Malachy recounts his flight from a childhood of poverty in Limerick, Ireland, heading for the promise of America.
He arrived in a fast-moving 1950s New Yorka dark, glittering city, with a saloon on every corner and a new story to embellish every night. Larger than life, McCourt carved out a place for himself: in the saloons, as the first celebrity bartender; on stage, performing the works of James Joyce and Brendan Behan; and on television, where the tales he spun made him a Tonight Show regular.
Darkly funny, shockingly raw, and everywhere making the English language do tricks the British never intended, Malachy McCourt, a true original, tells his story with passion, wit, irreverence, and charm.
The Story of the Unsinkable Titanic
Day-by-Day Facsimile Reports
Michael Wilkinson
The complete story of the legendary vessel from design to its building in Harland & Wolf’s Belfast shipyard and a detailed chronicle of the catastrophic voyage lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs, many of them previously unpublished.
The Way Women Are
Transformative Opinions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg--Second Edition
Cathy Cambron
United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a lifetime defying notions about “the way women are.” This collection of her legal briefs, opinions, and dissentsnewly updated to include her final days on the Courtilluminates the intellect, humor, and toughness that made “the Notorious R.B.G.” a cultural icon and a profoundly influential jurist. An introduction summarizes her life and legacy, and explanatory notes make these writings more accessible to a nonlegal audience.
“This book is a must-read for any citizen wondering about the where and how of some of the most pertinent laws of our time.” Amy Miller, Trial News