Bending History

Reducere. Let the people take heart and hope everywhere, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning.--Eugene Debs in ...

A vivid and fast-paced history, Gary May's Bending toward Justice offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rig...

A worst-day-ever adventure featuring famous faces from across history. Billy and his dog Shakespeare race against time to close a history-bending w...

Selected as Book of the Year by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman and the Observer, amongst others, this title combines part memoir and ...

A memoir of a young man's dream of space flight and deep diving, Bending Atmospheres is a dazzling adventure recounting daring, heroic professional...

An extraordinary record of 17 mind-bending conversations that took place over nearly a decade, reorienting the author's life and giving the world a...

Reducere. Nearly 300 mathematical brain-teasers from the fields of arithmetic, algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, number theory, and general re...

Looks at the earliest archaeological evidence of drug use, the botanicals of the classical world, and, the mind-bending self-experiments of early s...

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Reducere. A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction Vern--seven months pregnant and desperate to ...

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Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identit...

A glorious compendium of puzzles from throughout history, now pulled together for the first time in one collection. The Penguin Book of Puzzles con...

DescriptionTharg's Future Shocks are one-off, twist ending, sci-fi thrills that have introduced many of the biggest names in the comic book industr...

SR-71 covers every aspect of the spyplane's development, manufacture, and active service, all from the insider's perspective of one its pilots. Fea...

Reducere. Description The American public's introduction to nuclear technology was manifested in destruction and death. With Hiroshima and the Cold War still...

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"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature, ...

Grab some coins for the jukebox, and get ready for a colorful, time-traveling, musical tale about family and courage. A mysterious jukebox, old vin...

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Reducere. Ishmael Reed has created a sharp, wildly funny slave's-eye view of the Civil War. Three slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined i...

Description2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Finalist for 2016 Richard Wall Memorial Award by the Theatre Library Long listed for the 2017 Kra...

From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realitiesJust before the dawn of the new millennium, a curato...

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history ...

Combining the historical urgency of The Burning Tigris, the cultural sweep of Middlesex, and the psychological complexity of Bending Toward the Sun...

DescriptionMost contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happ...

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Reducere. Why do totalitarian propagandas such as those created in Nazi Germany and the former German Democratic Republic initially succeed, and why do they ...

Reducere. In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful stre...

DescriptionA Hasidic gunslinger tracks the renegade teacher who betrayed his mystic Jewish order of astral travelers to the Great Old Ones across t...

Samurai Jack meets Back to the Future in Alison Wilgus's Chronin Volume 2: The Sword in Your Hand, a thrilling conclusion to a time-bending graphic...

Reducere. The Stage of Time will bring you through an adventurous exploration into understanding the secrets of consciousness, ancient history, and the very ...

Reducere. Welcome to the first in a series of books that showcases writings from Zygote Quarterly magazine. The Science of Seeing collects firsthand reports ...

Reducere. Time Is Running Out In Two Realities.In one world, a lethal virus threatens to destroy all life as scientists and governments scramble to find an a...

(Sitar). The Hal Leonard Sitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play the sitar. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide s...

Description31 of Abbotts greatest mentalism effects are in this book including the following: 13 LIVING AND DEAD TESTS, ANY DRINK CALLED, ASTRAL DI...

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Reducere. A neurotic archaeologist professes to have discovered the final resting place of an ancient king - The Nartheneen Priest-King, Ishaq Zahur. With th...

Reducere. Conversations with LeAnne Howe is the first collection of interviews with the groundbreaking Choctaw author, whose genre-bending works take place i...

Reducere. Investigate 100 of the world's most notorious crimes, including the Great Train Robbery, the Lindbergh kidnapping, and the murders of serial killer...

Riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius, the history of the atom's discovery is as bizarre, as capricious, and a...

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Quantum Mechanics is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to the weird, mind-bending world of the ...

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Description"Muslim" A Novel is a genre-bending, poetic reflection on what it means to be Muslim from one of France's leading writers. In this novel...

DescriptionThe official line is clear: the UK does not 'participate in, solicit, encourage or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutabl...

Reducere. Originally published by ""Popular Mechanics"" in 1941, this classic manual is a testament to the ingenuity and dedication of American craftsmen. Th...

Reducere. Winner of American Library Association award: Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers: 2010 An illustrated guide to skateboarding skills and ...

Reducere. 99.9% of professional wrestling books are written by men about male performers in a male-dominated business. This book aims to help correct the bal...

Reducere. In his acclaimed book Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong, author Joseph Lanza explored the forbidden be...

'Sorrowland is a wonderland of fantastical and frightening, magical and real. At the centre of this world and leaping off the page is Vern: unstopp...

Reducere. A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and an exper...

Reducere. A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-si cle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity. Before the term "transgender" ...

A single photograph--an exceptionally rare "action shot" documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family--drives a riveting process...

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Some students of the presidency say that we can learn the most about the men who've occupied the Oval Office by studying their ideology. Others say...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Stage of Time will bring you through an adventurous exploration into the very nature of reality itself. Be prepared to question the ...

Reducere. Metachronopolis is the golden city beyond time. Ruled by the Masters of Time, who can travel freely throughout the multitudinous time lines of Man'...

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DescriptionLaser Moose and Rabbit Boy are back in a time-traveling adventure, perfect for getting past and future fans hooked on reading. Laser Moo...

DescriptionInterested in the origins of the species? Consider the Platypus uses pets such as dogs and cats as well as animal outliers like the axol...

DescriptionOn Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic From its modest beginnings with a single test issue to its Aurora Award-winning present,...

Reducere. This extraordinarily intimate and "gripping" (Vanity Fair) biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musi...

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Reducere. You need to see it to believe it! Exercise your eyes and imagination with 29 new mind-bending 3D illusions. 2D illustrations will magically morph b...

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