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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (11 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait....
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvi, 397 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, some color, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes--and thousands more--to the American plate.
"In the nineteenth century American meals were about subsistence, not enjoyment. Agriculture yielded stable, basic crops like soybeans, corn, and barley, and few growers considered variety or flavor. But as a new century approached, appetites...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Contrary to what you may have heard, the middle class is not dying and robots are not stealing our jobs. In fact, writes Adam Davidson--one of our leading public voices on economic issues--the twenty-first-century economic paradigm offers new ways of making money, fresh paths toward professional fulfillment, and unprecedented opportunities for curious, ambitious individuals to combine the things they love with their careers. Drawing on the stories...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A vivid, powerful and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again,"--Amazon.com.
Africa has long been misunderstood--and abused--by outsiders. This huge, diverse continent resists the one-size-fits-all solutions of aid workers and policy makers. In this evocative, poetic, and occasionally angry look at an emerging continent, award-winning journalist Alex Perry acknowledges its complexity...
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 663 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From Publishers Weekly: The rich and sometimes discordant strains of American self-scrutiny fill this wide-ranging anthology. Kennedy (The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) arranges the more than 200 selections according to themes like "The Flag," "Freedom of Speech," "Work, Opportunity and Invention" and "The Individual," and devotes equal space to the official, the devotional and the oppositional. The Declaration of Independence and...
1807) Aftershock: the human toll of war : haunting World War II images by America's soldier photographers
Author
Publisher
CityFiles Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The world was in ruin at the end of World War II: from the Blitz in London to the aftermath of the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A small group of Army soldiers witnessed it all. They photographed Germany's last push, the Battle of the Bulge, and they rode into Germany to witness unimagined destruction. They documented the Burma Road, which opened Mainland China to supplies, and saw war atrocities as far away as the Philippines. These...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xviii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nobel laureate Wilczek presents ten insights that illuminate what the world is and how it works. Fundamentals is built around a simple but profound idea: the models of the world we construct as children are practical and adequate for everyday life, but they do not bring in the surprising and mind-expanding revelations of modern science. To do that, we must look at the world anew, combining clear thinking with an openness to wonder. This "born again"...
Author
Publisher
Visible Ink
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Stories centuries in the making, and many centuries worth of stories, are an integral part of modern society. Whether modern or ancient, every culture has its myths. Mythology forms our understanding of our origin, history, and traditions. They tell of our heroes and deities. Myths are vehicles for understanding religion, for learning language, and for understanding society, but they can often be difficult to understand and confusing. The Handy Mythology...
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
11 videodiscs (649 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD-ROM (sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Join the amazing journeys of young Indy as he crosses paths with Picasso, Freud, Edison and other larger-than-life luminaries on his travels around the world.
1811) My little red book
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
My Little Red Book is an anthology of stories about first periods, collected from women of all ages from around the world. The accounts range from lighthearted (the editor got hers while waterskiing in a yellow bathing suit) to heart-stopping (a first period discovered just as one girl was about to be strip-searched by the Nazis). The contributors include well-known women writers (Meg Cabot, Erica Jong, Gloria Steinem, Cecily von Ziegesar), alongside...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
8 books (xvi, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm), 1 reading guide ; in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm)
Language
English
Description
In 1997 the author, aged 17, escaped North Korea for China. Her mother's first words over the telephone to her lost daughter were "don't come back". The reprisals for all of them would have been lethal. Twelve years later she returned to the North Korean border in a daring mission to spirit her mother and brother to South Korea in a very costly and dangerous journey. This eloquent book offers the first credible account of ordinary life in North Korea...
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