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IBM is heir to all the ideas for innovative ciphering machines of the past. From granite blocks used to tell time, to beads used for accounting pur...

Reducere. Chicago was the nation's deadliest city in 2001, recording 666 homicides. For lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender's Office Murder Task Force...

Reducere. Evie Blanchard was at the top of her field in the city of angels. But when an emotional year forces her to walk away from her job as a physical the...

RAINWALKERS is a story set in the not-so-distant future in a crumbling version of John Steinbeck's Salinas Valley, after the breakup of the United ...

The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial soci...

Breckenridge was a sleepy ranching and farming community in the rolling prairie of north central Texas when an oil boom hit. During 1920, it grew f...

Reducere. In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into po...

Reducere. Ocean View, a rich historical beachfront hamlet on the northern-most reaches of the city of Norfolk, was at one time a major resort destination for...

Reducere. The overlooked Quaker from Rhode Island who won the American Revolution's crucial southern campaign and helped to set up the final victory of Ameri...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Endicott-Johnson Corporation emerged from the modest Lester Brothers Company, manufacturers of boots and shoes, that began in 1854. ...

Reducere. "We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made, " wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon trai...

Reducere. DescriptionBeyond Lucky How does a man like Brian "Glaze" Gibbs roll the dice and escape a death sentence, multiple life sentences, and survive the...

Reducere. Discover the inspiring illustrated true story about one girl's escape from the Holocaust to become a concert pianist against all odds, made popular...

Reducere. Discover the inspiring illustrated true story about one girl's escape from the Holocaust to become a concert pianist against all odds, made popular...

Reducere. Farrah Gray is no ordinary teenager. He wears a suit and tie; he has an office on Wall Street and another one in Los Angeles . . . and he sold his ...

Reducere. REVISED AND UPDATED EDITIONKelowna, BC is sometimes referred to as the "Palm Springs" of Canada, and the Okanagan Valley is often referred to as th...

Experience the award-winning recipes for cookies, cakes, quiches, and croissants from maman, the beloved rustic-chic café "The perfect host gift bu...

Reducere. Raechel Anne Jolie's early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the wom...

Reducere. The series that began with The Deceivers continues in Scammed, the second twist-filled installment from Kristen Simmons, author of Article 5 and Th...

The series that began with The Deceivers continues in Scammed, the second twist-filled installment from Kristen Simmons, author of Article 5 and Th...

Reducere. I'm not supposed to be sacrificed to the wolves, that fate belongs to my sister. As the eldest daughter, she'll join our village's claimed girls wh...

Reducere. For the millions of girls--and the women they grow into--who are mad about horses, who live to ride, who spend more time in stables than stores, wh...

Reducere. Did you know that the Aztecs sacrificed 500 to 700 people every year in order to satisfy Gods?For many years, the Aztecs have captured our imaginat...

Reducere. Superpowered humans known as NEXT appeared in the world 45 years ago. Some of them fight crime in the city of Stern Bild while promoting their corp...

DescriptionDid you know that the Aztecs sacrificed 500 to 700 people every year in order to satisfy Gods? For many years, the Aztecs have captured ...

Reducere. This collection of biographies focuses on the discoverers and explorers of the New World - written for young readers, this is a superb introduction...

Reducere. Eons before the birth of the Roman Empire, there was a civilization dedicated to the sciences of earth, sea, and sky. In the City of Light lived pe...

Reducere. The classic book on legends, lore, and unvarnished truths surrounding New Orleans' most famous Voodoo mistress-now in a modern, legible format. It ...

The classic nativity story through verse, artwork, and music. Christmas Eve is the perfect time to create family traditions, and we've made it more...

DescriptionAn inspirational and gripping first-person account of determination, adversity and survival against the odds. Last year, Claire Nelson m...

Reducere. Re-inhabited: Republic for the United States of America is an unprecedented truthful historical account of America that has been "hidden in plain s...

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it's sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-know...