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Even 100 years on from the First World War it haunts us still. No other conflict has revealed so dramatically the senselessness of war, and none has shaped the modern world to the same extent, from its impact on the Russian Revolution and the rise of Hitler to the final break-up of the British Empire and the supremacy of America. These compelling eyewitness accounts - over 180 of them - of the War to End All Wars cover every facet of the war, from the Flanders trenches to the staffrooms of the Imperial German Army, from T. E. Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia') in the desert to German figher ace the Red Baron in the air, and from English Land Girls to German U-boat crews in the North Atlantic. There are contributions from all combatant nations, including the UK, USA, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, Australia, Russia, Serbia, and India and the book includes a detailed timeline and maps.

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Calcutta, 1886. Ottilie Russell is adrift between two cultures, British and Indian, belonging to both and neither. In order to support her little brother, Thaddeus, and her grandmother, she relies upon her skills in beetle-wing embroidery that have been passed down to her through generations of Indian women. When a stranger appears with the news that Thaddeus is now Baron Sunderson and must travel to England to take his place as a nobleman, Ottilie is shattered by the secrets that come to light. Despite her growing friendship with Everett Scott, friend to Ottilie's English grandmother and aunt, she refuses to give up her brother. Then tragedy strikes, and she is forced to make a decision that will take Thaddeus far from death and herself far from home. But betrayal and loss lurk in England, too, and soon Ottilie must fight to ensure Thaddeus doesn't forget who he is, as well as find a way to stitch a place for herself in this foreign land.

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Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, astonishing sums are paid today for the works of these artists. Their dazzling pictures are familiar - but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people? In a vivid and moving narrative, biographer Sue Roe shows the Impressionists in the studios of Paris, rural lanes of Montmartre and rowdy riverside bars as Paris underwent Baron Haussman's spectacular transformation.For over twenty years they lived and worked together as a group, struggling to rebuild their lives after the Franco-Prussian war and supporting one another through shocked public reactions to unfamiliar canvasses depicting laundresses, dancers, spring blossom and boating scenes. This intimate, colourful, superbly researched account takes us into their homes as well as their studios and describes their unconventional, volatile and precarious lives, as well as the stories behind their paintings.

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Gun-slinging American student nurses and boozy New York--playwrights-turned-educational-filmmakers find themselves stuck in the Haiti of 1955 as part of a government plan to pump up tourism and turn the Magic Island into the next Hawaii. The story follows the travels of Culprit Clutch, who appears mostly through rumor and innuendo, and his strange encounters with a plane-hopping British spy, Haitian street magicians, and a Scandinavian zombie. Josie, Culprit's ghostly paramour with a morphine habit, may or may not have voodoo spirits flowing through her, but the power-mad doctor channeling Baron Samedi is sure as hell bent on Culprit's destruction. The novel's cascading epilogues include a legendary car race down the length of Mexico; street theatre in Golden Gate Park, circa 1968; a Skylab mutiny; origins of the musical comedy Godspell; and cameos by the Nation of Islam and early followers of Jim Jones.

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Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785) is remembered today not only as colonial New Mexico’s preeminent religious artist, but also as the cartographer who drew some of the most important early maps of the American West. His “Plano Geographico” of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin, revised by his hand in 1778, influenced other mapmakers for almost a century. This book places the man and the map in historical context, reminding readers of the enduring significance of Miera y Pacheco. Later Spanish cartographers, as well as Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Captain Zebulon Montgomery Pike, and Henry Schenck Tanner, projected or expanded upon the Santa Fe cartographer’s imagery. By so doing, they perpetuated Miera y Pacheco’s most notable hydrographic misinterpretations. Not until almost seventy years after Miera did John Charles Frémont take the field and see for himself whither the waters ran and whither they didn’t.

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In March 1781, General Washington anticipated a campaign to drive the British from New York City, but difficulties mandating enlistments and outfitting recruits forestalled this opportunity. Meanwhile, a storm damaged British ships and provided an opening for the French to sail from Newport to the Chesapeake Bay to help trap British forces commanded by Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold in Virginia. To Washington's disappointment, however, the British fleet recovered in time to fight the French at the Battle of Cape Henry, prompting Captain Destouches to withdraw and leaving the British to control the bay. Undeterred, Washington encouraged major generals Nathanael Greene and Baron von Steuben in the southern states, where Continental forces bloodied the British at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. His mounting personal frustrations regarding Mount Vernon and his mother's efforts to secure financial relief from the Virginia legislature were lightened by Martha Washington's presence at the winter encampment.

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An extraordinary epic of love, family, and war set in the Basque town of Guernica before, during, and after its destruction by the German Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War. In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself in conflict with the Spanish Civil Guard and flees the Basque fishing village of Lekeitio to make a new start in Guernica, the centre of Basque culture and tradition. Once there, he finds more than just a new life – he finds someone to live for. Miren Ansotegui is the charismatic and graceful dancer he meets and the two discover a love they believe nothing can destroy . . . Rich in the history of the region, the Red Baron, the Luftwaffe and even Picasso make appearances in Guernica as the fate of the Navarro family is traced through the early decades of the twentieth century. 'A heart-rending yet life-affirming story' Daily Mail

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Una Mallorca llena de secretos, amores perdidos y un legado manchado por la sombra del pasado.A los 34 años, Leopoldo Salinas irrumpe en la novela con una calidad de escritura espectacular y la experiencia que da haberse leído casi todo. El resultado sólo puede ser un tsunami literario.Tras haber luchado en la Primera Guerra Mundial en el bando de los perdedores, Felipe Neudorf, hijo bastardo y nunca reconocido del archiduque Luis Salvador de Austria, regresa a su Mallorca natal, donde le espera la herencia de su padrino y protector, el barón Babenberg.Sin embargo, al poco de llegar a la isla, descubrirá que sus asuntos pendientes son muchos más de los que él creía: para empezar, la indómita Carmen Feliú, su amor adolescente, sigue ejerciendo sobre él un poderoso hechizo; después, la carta que dejó para él su padrino desaparece al mismo tiempo que se desata un incendio en la masía que era su herencia. Y, sobre todo ello, la memoria

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For more than twenty years, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt has been warning the American people of the New World Order stratagem to overthrow democratically elected school boards with public-private partnerships between the federal government and globalist corporations. In this volume, John Klyczek expounds on Iserbyt’s theories by tracing her work to the present moment as a last ditch effort to stop the corporatization of education. Klyczek explores how the infamous Yale Secret Society, Skull and Bones, utilized Robber Baron philanthropy and stimulus-response psychological conditioning to institute a corporatist system of workforce training for a fascistically planned economy. He then explains how this system is being upgraded to a technocratic education system of corporatist “school choice” through virtual education technologies that program students for a globally planned economy. School World Order will teach you the ulterior agenda behind the ed-tech movement: data-mining students for research and development into artificial intelligence and transhumanist biotechnologies for the establishment of an authoritarian, post-human society.

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Sir Charles Sheridan is many things - an amateur scientist, a renowned photographer, and a skilled detective. And due to Victorian customs, he will soon become a baron, making Irish-American penny-dreadful writer Kate Ardleigh an unsuitable candidate for a wife. But even as custom keeps them apart, murder seems to bring them together . . . The Countess of Warwick, Lady Frances Brooke (known to all as Daisy), is the subject of endless gossip about her fiery temperament, willful ways, and decidely unladylike behavior. But what happens during a weekend house party at her Easton estate is uglier than any rumor - especially because Bertie, the Prince of Wales and Daisy's current lover, has joined the party. First, a stableboy is killed. Then a nobleman is murdered at the Easton folly, the small, decorative garden building that is Daisy's well-known trysting spot. Anxious to avoid scandal, the Prince of Wales asks Sir Charles to identify the killer - and Charles finds himself in need of the talents of Miss Ardleigh.

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Commandant Michel de Palma, known by his colleagues as 'the Baron', has chosen early retirement and plans to travel the world. But he is dragged back into the force when a case that has haunted him for a decade erupts once more. Resurfacing from Le Guen's Cave, a prehistoric grotto thirty-eight metres below sea level outside Marseilles, France, an experienced diver mysteriously gets into difficulties. Meanwhile, Thomas Autran, a serial killer with a peculiar interest in the supernatural, suffering from a dangerous form of schizophrenia, is once again on the run. Ancient cave paintings, savage murders committed according to a precise ritual: a return to the first ages of humanity, the era of the great Palaeolithic hunters. And despite the gory trail left at each crime scene, de Palma must first understand the child, the secrets of a family, a story of exploitation - and revenge - before he can track down the First Man.

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In Modernity and Its Other Robert Woods Sayre examines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early capitalist civilization (modernity) in colonial societies, especially the British, interacted closely with Indigenous communities (the “Other”) before the balance of power shifted definitively toward the colonizers. Sayre considers a variety of French perspectives as a counterpoint to the Anglo-American lens, including J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and Philip Freneau, as well as both Anglo-American and French or French Canadian travelers in “Indian territory,” including William Bartram, Jonathan Carver, John Lawson, Alexander Mackenzie, Baron de Lahontan, Pierre Charlevoix, and Jean-Baptiste Trudeau. Modernity and Its Other is an important addition to any North American historian’s bookshelf, for it brings together the social history of the European colonies and the ethnohistory of the American Indian peoples who interacted with the colonizers.

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The fourth edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text, Introduction to Documentary, has been vastly altered in its entirety to bring this indispensable textbook up to date and reconceptualize aspects of its treatment of documentaries past and present. Here Nichols, with Jaimie Baron, has edited each chapter for clarity and ease of use and expanded the book with updates and new ideas. Featuring abundant examples and images, Introduction to Documentary, Fourth Edition is designed to facilitate a rich understanding of how cinema can be used to document the historical world as it is seen by a wide variety of filmmakers. Subjectivity, expressivity, persuasiveness, and credibility are crucial factors that move documentary film away from objective documentation and toward the thought-provoking realm of arguments, perceptions, and perspectives that draw from a filmmaker's unique sensibility to help us see the world as we have not seen it before. Exploring ethics, history, different modes of

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Elektra returns to life in this thrilling saga taken from one of Daredevil''s most thrilling eras! It''s the epic saga that reintroduced Elektra to the Marvel Universe! The Hand ninja clan unleashes a super-virus on New York, and only Daredevil can stop them - but not without some unexpected help from a long-lost love and a new, armoured costume! Can the Man Without Fear come to terms with his past with Elektra in time to halt the Hand''s terror plot, even if it means the end of his secret identity? And when Baron Strucker assembles a team of cyber-terrorists to plunge the world''s computer systems into global anarchy, will even Captain America''s aid be enough to defeat them? Guest-starring Nick Fury, Black Widow and more! Plus: 15 rare, new story pages from the original 1995 Fall From Grace trade paperback! Collecting: Daredevil (1964) #319-332 and Annual #10

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In this thrilling historical adventure, 18-year-old Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes, encounter a threat like none they've ever seen - a Ghost Army! The dead of this war and wars past are coming back to life, impervious to bullets, flames, or anything else the Allies can throw at them. The armies rise from the ground in the night and seem to disappear without a trace. How can Cap and Buck fight something that's already dead? And just what does the mysterious Baron Mordo, sitting in his castle atop nearby Wundagore Mountain have to do with this? Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz merges the worlds of historical fiction and comics in this one-of-a-kind graphic novel that is sure to be met with major enthusiasm from fans of all age. From New York Times' bestselling author, Alan Gratz Beautiful artwork Perfect for fans of all ages

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When the successful British mystery writer Judith Moore meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a birthday party on the Cornish coast, his love transforms her from a bitter, lonely young woman into a romance heroine overnight. After a whirlwind honeymoon in Paris, he whisks her away to a secluded Gothic castle. But soon she finds herself trapped in a nightmare, as her husband's mysterious nature and his alternation between charm and violence become increasingly frightening. As Judith battles both internal and external demons, including sexual ambivalence, psychological self-torture, gaslighting, family neglect, alcoholism, and domestic abuse, she becomes increasingly addicted to her wild beast of a husband. Why do women stay in abusive relationships? The answer can be found in the tortured mind of the protagonist, whose richly layered fantasy life parallels that of the female Gothic romance reader. Filled with dark humor and evocative imagery, Bluebeard's Castle is a subversive take on modern romance and Gothic erotica.

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Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could offer by way of pain relief was a large swig of brandy. Onto this scene came John Elliotson, the dazzling new hope of the medical world. Charismatic and ambitious, Elliotson was determined to transform medicine from a hodge-podge of archaic remedies into a practice informed by the latest science. In this aim he was backed by Thomas Wakley, founder of the new magazine, theLancet, and a campaigner against corruption and malpractice.Then, in the summer of 1837, a French visitor - the self-styled Baron Jules Denis Dupotet - arrived in London to promote an exotic new idea: mesmerism. The mesmerism mania would take the nation by storm but would ultimately split the two friends, and the medical world, asunder - throwing into focus fundamental questions about the fine line between medicine and quackery, between science and superstition.

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When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture. From that discovery unspooled the captivating, twisting tale of the remarkable people who lived in the house before Eisen. Their story is Europe's, telling the dramatic and surprisingly cyclical tale of the endurance of liberal democracy: the optimistic Jewish financial baron who built the palace; the conflicted Nazi general who put his life at risk for the house during World War II; the first postwar US ambassador struggling to save both the palace and Prague from communist hands; the child star- turned-diplomat who fought to end totalitarianism; and Eisen's own mother, whose life demonstrates how those without power and privilege moved through history.The Last Palace chronicles the upheavals that have transformed the continent over the past century and reveals how we never live far from the past.

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“Three hundred years ago, Lord Carpenter, I’d have had your head on a spike on Tower Hill..” It is 1938 and newspaper chief Lord Carpenter is about to publish a front-page story that will guarantee war with Russia. But before the paper can go to print, he is found stabbed in his office, and circumstances suggest the killer is one of his staff. Everyone from the editor-in-chief to the staff librarian had the opportunity. But was the motivation for the murder political or personal? Crime reporter Charles Venables finds himself both suspect and sleuth as he tries to disentangle the clues and determine which of his colleagues is the guilty party. Red herrings abound, but it soon becomes apparent that more than one person had a reason to want Carpenter dead…. Fatality in Fleet Street displays the author’s trademark wit and a plot with plenty of twists and ingenuity to please the reader. Equally interesting are the political overtones and the militaristic pretensions of the deceased newspaper baron. The novel is set in 1938 – five years later than its real publication date – and presents a Russia whose economy is growing, which makes the country ‘a real menace to the established order of things’ in Carpenter’s worldview. Although the imperious newspaper baron meets his demise early on, his outsized personality and ambition are the bedrock that propels the story. Sprigg makes his satire clear; there is more than a passing resemblance between the fictional Lord Carpenter and the real world Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, owner of the Evening Standard and Daily Express. Sprigg started his career as a cub reporter and the book’s setting of a busy newspaper is well realised. Fatality also takes a sardonic view of socialist activity in Britain. When Venables goes to investigate a local chapter of the Communist Party, the situation is alternately threatening and farcical, with members parading their revolutionary credentials and loudly denouncing the ‘bourgeois’. Sprigg later became an active member of the Communist Party and published Marxist literary criticism, but his gently mocking tone in Fatality suggests this conversion was some way off in 1933.

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Melancólica, soñadora, la joven Irma es una de esas personas que contemplan la vida como si de una obra de teatro se tratara y que, en lugar de tomar parte en ella, desempeñan su papel desde el otro lado del telón. Su marido, el barón Ulrich von Buchow, es todo lo contrario: un hombre pragmático y con los pies en la tierra. Mientras Ulrich centra su atención en la finca y la educación de sus dos hijos, Irma siente que, poco a poco, el deseo de cambiar su vida por otra más interesante se va apoderando de ella? hasta que, de improviso, un trágico acontecimiento da un vuelco a la situación y provoca que todos los conflictos lleguen a su punto álgido. Los niños de los bellos días, última novela de Keyserling y una de las que escribió ya ciego, habla de amor y celos, vacío interior, grandes esperanzas y, a modo de prólogo del divorcio, el fracaso de un matrimonio.

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DURANTE el siglo XIX, fueron frecuentes los libros de viaje ilustrados porque, hasta que la reproducción fotográfica y el arte de viajar no se popularizaron, los grabados y litografías eran las únicas fuentes que permitían, sin abandonar el salón y la biblioteca familiar, un cierto conocimiento visual de lugares lejanos y exóticos. Quizás en esto radique la gran acogida dispensada, desde sus primeros momentos a estas páginas que hoy reeditamos y que atesoran hermosísimas imágenes y ricos testimonios escritos de ciudades, paisajes, escenas y tipos que ahora podemos evocar sólo gracias a la peregrinación artística de dos personajes que pusieron su pasión y sus dotes para que su viaje se convirtiera, incluso siglos después, en un viaje al alcance de todos. Davillier descubre y describe una España y unas costumbres que Doré cubrió con el halo trascendente de su arte.JEAN CHARLES DAVILLIER (Barón de Ruán, 1823-París, 1883) hijo de rica familia de industriales normandos que le permitió e

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Una gran historia de pasión, amor y venganza, ambientada en las plantaciones de azúcar del Caribe colonial.El autor nos deslumbra con un cóctel perfecto de amor, glamour e intriga; no querrás salir de El valle de los arcángeles, Carmen Posadas.Barcelona, primavera de 1864. Mientras Gabriel Gorchs, hijo único del barón de Santa Ponsa, trama cómo cambiar su suerte, recibe una carta que le informa de que la tragedia lo ha convertido en el heredero de una importante plantación en el Caribe. Aunque duda, enseguida comprende que es una oportunidad única para él. Por otra parte, Pepa Gómez, criada en la miseria y el maltrato, pero guapa, inteligente y determinada, ha conseguido trabajo en un gran palacio de la ciudad. Maquinando cómo seguir escalando socialmente, su decisión de abrirse paso sin pensar en los demás provocará un error de cálculo que la forzará a huir. Ambos coinciden a bordo del Santa Graciela. A los dos los espera su destino, el Valle de los A

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arís ha sido una de las ciudades más influyentes del mundo, pero durante los días del Segundo Imperio constituyó el prototipo de la modernidad tal como ésta ha sido codificada canónicamente. Durante el periodo que transcurre entre las revoluciones fallidas de 1848 y 1871, experimentó una transformación realmente impresionante. El barón Haussmann orquetó la remodelación física de la ciudad, reemplazando su trazado medieval por los grandes bulevares que dominan su fisonomía hasta el día de hoy. Igualmente, durane esta misma etapa se verificaron tanto el surgimiento de una nueva forma de capitalismo dominada por las altas finanzas como la emergencia de la moderna cultura del consumo.Los imparables cambios sociales y físicos provocaron la novedosa respuesta del "movimiento moderno", pero también dividieron más profundamente la ciudad y su organización espacial, económica y urbana de acuerdo co nítidas líneas de clase. El resultado fue el levantamiento y la sangrienta represión de la Co

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After years of isolation on top of Hope Mountain, Ilsa Nordegren may finally be ready to leave. Raised to fear the world, Ilsa and her sisters never planned on coming down, but when the Warden family arrived in need, they had to help. And it may cost them everything. Having made his fortune, Mitch Warden returned home and found the family homestead abandoned. In a land grab, a ruthless cattle baron had forced his family to escape up the mountain, and when he follows, the last thing he expects is to fall smitten to a black-haired woman who dresses like Robin Hood. Warden is intent on helping his family reclaim their land, but doesn't realize the risks his past has brought. Dangerous men have tracked him, and rather than risk innocent lives, he's determined to end the danger. But that means a journey to the city--and when Ilsa insists on joining him, the mismatched pair suddenly find themselves on a venture they'll never forget.

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Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst''s chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a Scottish baron and fourteen years older than Jack. They met in 1908, fell in love, lived together, and became public faces of the suffragette movement, enduring prison and doing everything they could for the cause.The First World War paused the suffragettes'' campaign and Jack and Eve enrolled in the Scottish Women''s Hospital Service and soon found themselves in Serbia. Eve set up and ran hospitals for allied soldiers in appalling conditions, while Jack became an ambulance driver, travelling along dirt tracks under bombardment to collect the wounded from the front lines.Together, they carved radical new paths, demonstrating that women could do anything men could do, whether driving ambulances, running military hospitals, becoming prisoners of war or bearing arms. They refused to compromise in

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Strategy Beyond Markets examines how the strategies employed by firms affect long run value. Scholars in this field focus their attention on firm interactions with entities other than the firm's primary market stakeholders. These stakeholders include international NGOs, environmental groups, local communities, regulators, politicians and the courts. This book is organized around three themes: Public politics, private politics, and integrated political strategy. In public politics, firms use sophisticated instruments (e.g., campaign funding, committee participation) to influence local, national, and international political environments. In private politics, firms work closely with NGOs and other special interest groups to preempt unfavorable policy, react swiftly to crises, and proactively develop socially responsible strategies. Additionally, firms that are heavily influenced by politics are more likely to craft integrated political strategy as part of a more comprehensive plan. This special issue comprises papers from preeminent scholars including David Baron, Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Daniel Diermeier, Thomas Lyon, John Maxwell, Ken Shotts, and Dennis Yao.

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The epic tale of House Harkonnen comes to a close in the FINAL story arc of the second Dune prequel from Brian Herbet and Kevin J. Anderson!The second official, NYT Bestselling prequel to Dune is adapted for the first time by award-winning novelists Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson and artist Michael Shelfer (Domino), unveiling a closer look at the rising conflict between beloved characters and bitter villains. Atomic threats and prophetic visions, deadly villains of destiny, schemes of destruction and death… all coexist with marriage proposals and political tension. But when a terrorist attack threatens the procession, Leto and other legendary characters are in grave danger, and not all will make it out alive! Fateful decisions and unthinkable tragedies, damning accusations, plans of murder, and unconventional yet fateful family… the Baron will find vengeance where he can, and Leto will say a painful goodbye as the hit prequel comes to a close… C

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In the third adventure of the Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast series, our delectable rhyming friends race against time to save their fridge—perfect for fans of The Food Group series. There’s a frost in the fridge—and it’s hardened Pudding Pond and frozen Yogurt Falls! Agent Asparagus is on the case, and she begs Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast to join her superspy team. But when Asparagus is captured, Pancake and French Toast have to turn to someone unexpected for help: the evil Baron von Waffle! Will he help them save the fridge… or are they doomed to become frozen food? Praise for the Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast Series: “[R]eaders will giggle their way through this refrigerated fantasyland.”—Publishers Weekly “A must purchase.”—School Library Journal, starred review Don’t miss the other books in the series:Lady Pancake & Sir French ToastThe Case of the Stinky StenchShort & SweetThe Great Caper Caper

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The legendary World War II Luftwaffe fighter unit Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen" is the subject of this new, large-format, illustrated volume. Tracing their history back to World War I fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen (the legendary "Red Baron"), JG 2 was at the forefront of aerial combat. Flying the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighters during World War II, JG 2 produced many famous aces - among them Wilhelm Balthasar, Walter Oesau, Egon Mayer, Hans Hahn, Erich Rudorfer, and Helmut Wick. Using a day-to-day chronology, the book covers JG 2's combat history during the early campaigns in Poland and France, through the Battle of Britain, North Africa, and in the later defense of the Reich battles. A short chapter also covers their post-World War II transformation to JG 71 "Richtohofen" under the command of Erich Hartmann, when they flew the F-86, F-104 and F-4 Phantom.

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Entre 1980 y 2008 los ingresos del 90% de los estadounidenses crecieron un mísero 1%, mientras que los de los grandes multimillonarios (el 0,01% de la población) crecían un 403%. Una sociedad descompensada en la parte superior de la pirámide puede parecer un paraíso de la movilidad ascendente, pero en realidad se parece más a un cementerio de sueños rotos para todos excepto para unos pocos afortunados. Las grandes fortunas del capitalista filantrópico Bill Gates, los infames hermanos Koch o el barón de la equidad privada Stephen Schwarzman son presentadas como pruebas de una meritocracia, pero más bien parecen el resultado de un sistema legal y económico diseñado para ello. Un sistema que amenaza seriamente nuestra calidad de vida y, en definitiva, el funcionamiento mismo del estado de derecho.En esta divertida acusación, McQuaig y Brooks desafían la idea de que la desigualdad de ingresos de hoy es el resultado del mérito, revelan cómo los multimillonarios han secuestrado el sistema

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Todos somos soñadores sagrados manifestando el mundo al soñar. Cuál será tu sueño?El oráculo El sueño del chamán es resultado de la poderosa colaboración entre los maestros Alberto Villoldo y Colette Baron-Reid. Sus imágenes y visiones surgen de los arquetipos y la magia del tradicional mundo ensoñador chamánico, pero a la vez ofrece interpretaciones originales y contemporáneas.Con él descubrirás seres espirituales y paisajes míticos, y comprenderás cómo este ámbito sagrado moldea nuestraexperiencias en el mundo de la vigilia. Este oráculo te revelará cómo tus escenas oníricas te guían a cocrear tu mundo y a manifestar tus intenciones más preciosas.El mundo de los sueños ha cautivado la psique humana desde siempre, ya que permite el acceso a los estratos más profundos de nuestra vida y nos ayuda a comprenderlos. Todos somos soñadores sagrados que manifestamos el mundo a través de lo que soñamos, y tanto los paisajes míticos como los seres espirituales que pueblan

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Compelling and meticulously researched,the riveting life of a maverick Scottish spy.' Charles CummingTHE THRILLING BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT BRUCE LOCKHART, BRITAIN'S AGENT' IN MOSCOWSir Robert Bruce Lockhart (18871970) was an impressive figure: a diplomat, intelligence agent, conspirator, journalist and propagandist who played a key role in both world wars. He was a man who charmed his way into the confidences of everyone from Leon Trotsky to Anthony Eden. A man whom the influential press baron Lord Beaverbook claimed could well have been prime minister'. And yet Lockhart died almost forgotten and near destitute, a Scottish footnote in the pages of history. Rogue Agentis the first biography of this gifted yet habitually flawed maverick. It chronicles his many exploits, from his time as Britain's Agent' in Moscow, and his role in a plot to bring down the communist regime, to leading the Political Warfare Executive, a secret body responsible for disinformation and propaganda in the Second W

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From two leaders of the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement, a bold, contrarian guide to retiring at any age, with a reproducible formula to financial independence.A bull***t-free guide to growing your wealth, retiring early, and living life on your own terms.Kristy Shen retired with a million dollars at the age of thirty-one, and she did it without hitting a home run on the stock market, starting the next Snapchat in her garage, or investing in hot real estate. Learn how to cut down on spending without decreasing your quality of life, build a million-dollar portfolio, fortify your investments to survive bear markets and black-swan events, and use the 4 percent rule and the Yield Shield - so you can quit the rat race forever. Not everyone can become an entrepreneur or a real estate baron; the rest of us need Shen's mathematically proven approach to retire decades before sixty-five.

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The twists and turns keep on coming as Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley continue the redemption arc of the Thunderbolts! Lighting strikes twice! Baron Zemo''s plan has failed, and the Thunderbolts have been exposed as villains in disguise. Worse, they''ve been kidnapped to the realm of Kosmos. How far will Moonstone go to get them home? Back on Earth, the T-Bolts are pursued by S.H.I.E.L.D. - as well as Zemo, who''s out for blood! Have the Thunderbolts truly reformed? And who will give them a chance to prove it? One surprising figure from the Avengers'' ranks just might: Hawkeye the Marksman! But his offer of redemption comes with a high price... Plus: Captain America faces the new Citizen V! Hercules targets Atlas for vengeance! The T-Bolts battle alongside the Avengers! And can the team triumph over the Crimson Cowl''s massive new Masters of Evil? Collecting: Thunderbolts (1997) 13-25, 0; Captain America & Citizen V Annual 1998; Avengers (1998) 12

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A captivating photographic odyssey spanning fashion, Hollywood and travel, this is the first publication in almost 40 years on the work of George Hoyningen-Huene, the photographer whose images defined an era. Baron George Hoyningen-Huene (19001968), known simply as Huene, worked during the golden age of couture fashion and Hollywood cinema. He was born in St Petersburg to a wealthy family, but they had to flee their home during the Russian revolution in 1917. Huene spent time in England before moving to Paris, where he was employed to create photographs for Vogue and Vanity Fair and rapidly established himself as a visual innovator, fusing elements of neoclassicism and surrealism to create chic, arresting images. In 1935, Huene joined Harper's Bazaar magazine, where he remained a contributor until 1946, following which he settled in California and embarked on a second career as a colour coordinator for Hollywood films. Supported by an international exhibition opening at Chanel Ne

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The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L. Marshall works to reveal: the Weimar origins of rhetorical inquiry. Marshall focuses his attention on Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Aby Warburg, revealing how these influential thinkers inflected and transformed problems originally set out by Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Theodor Adorno, Hans Baron, and Leo Strauss. He contends that we miss major opportunities if we do not attend to the rhetorical aspects of their thought, and his aim, in the end, is to lay out an intellectual history that can become a zone of theoretical experimentation in para-democratic times. Redescribing the Weimar origins of political theory in terms of rhetorical inquiry, Marshall provides fresh readings of pivotal thinkers and argues that the vision of rhetorical inquiry that they open up allows for new ways of imagining political communities today.

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Baroness Kunigunde von Richthofen originally published Mein Kriegstagebuch (My War Diary) in 1937, at a time when tales of heroes of the First World War inspired the youth of a country being prepared for a second war. Mother of Eagles is the culmination of the translation of the war diary, along with numerous facts and information not included in the original work. Follow the youth and wartime exploits of Manfred and Lothar, the leading German aces of World War I, through the eyes of their mother and a nation. Letters to the Barronness from each of her sons intially depict the wartime conditions on the ground, and then evolve into vivid details about the exhiliration of the hunt in the air for ever increasing numbers of enemy planes. This book will not only appeal to those interested in the Red Baron and his ace brother, Lothar, but to anyone who is interested in reading of the civilian life in Germany during the Great War.

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Kyle Gray is one of the world''s most incredibly gifted angel communicators. I have seen him work and he is authentic, intelligent, and deeply compassionate. I highly recommend him and all his creations!Colette Baron-Reid, internationally best-selling oracle expertTap into the powerful, supportive force of the Archangels with this 22-card oracle from best-selling author, card deck creator, and angel expert Kyle Gray.The Archangels are a divine legion of angels who have been charged by the light of God to serve, protect, heal, and guide humanity towards wholeness. These divine Angels create a bridge between the realms and are here to support you through this lifetime.This deck has been specially developed to work in tandem with The Angel Guide Oracle and The Divine Masters Oracle to form part of a mega-deck, or can be used as a standalone deck to help you connect with the Archangels in your daily spiritual practice

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Happiness is...a whole new book of Peanuts collectibles! Attention Peanuts Gang lovers! Here is another huge volume of treasures from our favorite crowd of kids. Jan Lindenberger has made another visit to the massive collection of Cher Porges to bring back over six hundred full color photographs of "Peanut-phernalia" not seen in any other book! In the enormous field of Peanuts collectibles, this series is a must, providing the photography, information, and up-to-date prices you need to keep your collection at its best. This is a fantastic book for the serious collector, but it's also a great Peanuts tribute-if you'd rather just play catch with Charlie Brown, get advice from Lucy, play a duet with Schroeder, fly with Snoopy against the Red Baron, or hang around the pumpkin patch to get philosophical with Linus. This book celebrates the wonderful innocence, cleverness, and unique humor of Charles Schulz's Peanut Gang.

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UNA DESTERNILLANTE REVISIÓN DEL MITO ARTÚRICO EN CLAVE FEMINISTA El rey Arturo, el de la leyenda? Un viejo borracho decrépito que se pasa los días tirado en su trono. Su gloria queda ahora lejos, se la debe a la espada mágica que Merlín le forjó para que derrotase a las hordas de demonios que invadieron el reino de Pendragón. Ahora testigo de su decadencia, el arma encantada se aburre mientras la princesa Ysabel explota de rabia porque su ruinoso padre le ha prometido su mano al innoble barón de Cumbre. Ambas decididas a encontrar un destino mejor, Ysa y la espada se alían para escaparse del castillo e ir en busca de Maxine, la hermana mayor desaparecida. Pero el mundo puede ser un lugar muy cruel para una princesa que solo ha conocido la vida de palacio. Y las intenciones de la espada son, quizá, menos nobles de lo que parece. Geoffroy Monde y Mathieu Burniat nos ofrecen una actualización del mito artúrico irreverente y provocadora. Un festival de diversión y aventuras con un apartado

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Camino hacia el amorEl pasado de Marion Warenne era una pesadilla borrosa. Sin embargo, su presente se alzaba glorioso frente a ella en la forma del magnífico Dunstan de Burgh. Un fiero caballero decidido a ganar la batalla de voluntades que libraban los dos, y empeñado en afirmar que no creía en el amor. A Dunstan de Burgh, barón de Wessex, lo comparaban con el lobo que merodea por los bosques: feroz, valiente y alerta ante cualquier peligro. Cómo podía ser entonces que una damisela de dulces ojos consiguiese escapar a su vigilancia una y otra vez? Y aún peor, cómo conseguía burlar sus defensas y llegar tan fácilmente hasta su corazón?Una mujer peligrosaGeoffrey de Burgh era un guerrero como sus hermanos, pero también esperaba encontrar el amor. Sin embargo, un edicto del rey y la mala suerte le obligaron a casarse con Elene Fitzhugh, una mujer con fama de salvaje.A pesar de los rumores que decían que había matado a su primer marido, de sus continuas amenazas

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In everyone s closet, there is one article of clothing that truly demonstrates a momentary lapse in fashion judgment. I Actually Wore This is the first book to celebrate these fashion blunders and lets us in on how and why they happened: the purple velour jumpsuit that was supposed to make you look dangerous, the Baron von Trapp ish Tyrolean jacket that seemed like a good idea after six beers in Munich, and the cocktail napkin sized swimsuit. Each of these cringe-inducing items somehow managed to find its way into the wardrobe of a typically fashionable person, and the authors are here to tell you how that happened. In I Actually Wore This, otherwise stylish individuals, from Bergdorf Goodman s fashion director to actress and SNL alum Molly Shannon, choose the one item from their closet that best illustrates when taste took a holiday, allow themselves to be photographed in it, and tell the story of how, where, and why they bought this article of clothing that makes them mutter what was I thinking? each time they see it.

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The glittering story of April Ashley, model and trans pioneer, and the divorce case that gripped 1970s Britain and defined transgender rights for a generation. As Britain emerged from post-war austerity and headed towards the Swinging Sixties, no one embodied its newfound spirit of hedonism and glamour like April Ashley. A fashion model and socialite who rose from poverty in Liverpool to the heights of London society via Le Carrousel nightclub in Paris, she was also one of the first Britons to undergo gender-affirming surgery. Ashley was appointed MBE for services to transgender equality in 2012, but her journey towards acceptance was hard-won and bitterly contested. In 1961, a friend sold her story to a tabloid and she feared that she would never work in the UK again. Her brief marriage to Arthur Corbett, the son of a baron, set off a high-profile divorce battle, resulting in a landmark 1970 decision denying transgender women legal status as women and denying Ashley her husband's i

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In 1778, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart leaves Salzburg for Paris. The French capital promises to liberate the 22-year-old from the suffocating grip of his father, and from a city that is unable to accommodate his genius. But there is no grand entrance for the former child prodigy. When Mozart arrives in Paris, he is cash-strapped, unknown and his French is poor. His mentor, the critic Baron von Grimm, introduces him to a number of Parisian nobles. But recognition is hard-won, and at times the French court appears indifferent to Mozart's talents and disapproving of his spontaneity. Tracing the composer’s six-month stay in the city of lights, Mozart in Paris dramatizes the confrontation between a sparkle-eyed genius and mundane reality. Frantz Duchazeau spotlights a frustrating yet formative period of the composer’s life — and in doing so creates a living, breathing portrait of a man whose music, as Einstein famously said, “was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.”

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Lord Byron (Author) Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron) was born January 22, 1788. By the time he was at Harrow, he had already experienced a major shift in place and personal circumstances - from the child born at the Castle of Gight in the Scottish Highlands to the teenage heir of the Byron barony, whose family seat was Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire. From Harrow, he went to the University of Cambridge and then, while most young gentlemen had become resigned to the impossibility of undertaking a Grand Tour during the years of Napoleon's domination of Europe, Byron embarked on a voyage around the Iberian peninsula and across the Mediterranean to Turkey, Greece and Albania to see as much as he could of the Ancient world and to set himself up for the Modern.Byron's appetite for new places was never satisfied. After four years in London, being feted as a great poet, he set off again amid scandal and distress to see the Battlefield of Waterloo, to jo

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When Lord Petre had the effrontery of cutting off a lock of Lady Arabella Fermor’s hair, a veritable war erupted between the two noble families. A mutual friend, saddened by their estrangement, asked Alexander Pope, then a young poet, to write a poem about it, in order to make a joke of it and “laugh them together again”. But the result – which in its ingenuity and poetical brilliance reaches peaks of epic sublime – concealed darker and more dangerous undertones that unleashed an even greater storm between the parties involved – and among the whole literary world of the time. As Belinda glides along the Thames admired for her beauty and the crafty Baron schemes to take his prize, a host of supernatural beings – elves, sylphs, gnomes – dance around them to avoid the impending doom, in what is Pope’s crowning poetical achievement and perhaps the greatest satirical poem ever written. Included in this volume are the original two-canto version of The Rape of the Lock and Pope’s hilarious mock-interpretation of the poem as a seditious work, A Key to the Lock.

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The third volume of the Grandville series - Anthropomorphic steampunk detective fiction from graphic novel master Bryan Talbot The Badger is back! Follow the Badger! At Toad Hall, lair of multibillionaire Baron Aristotle Krapaud, a cabal of industrialists and fat cats plot the violent overthrow of the French state. Meanwhile, the brutal murder of a famous Parisian artist is subject to the investigations of the tenacious Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard, placing him and his faithful adjunct, Detective Sergeant Roderick Ratzi, in pursuit of the mysterious masked assassin stalking the cut-throat commercial world of the Grandville art scene. As the body count mounts and events spiral exponentially out of control, aided by his brilliant deductive abilities and innate ferocity, LeBrock battles against outrageous odds in this funny, high octane thriller, an adventure shot through with both high art and comic book references, a glorious illegitimate offspring of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming - with animals! 'The bastard child of Conan Doyle and Beatrix Potter, it’s a gripping feast for the eyes' Observer

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El Román de Melusina, obra concluida en 1401 por el clérigo y poeta Coudrette, en 7.150 octosílabos pareados en lengua de oïl, es uno de los más bellos ejemplos del renacimiento literario de la gran tradición de la poesía cortés medieval francesa en los primeros compases de la Guerra de los Cien Años, momento en el que el barón Guillermo de Parthenay y el duque Juan de Berry se ven impulsados a batallar, con la pluma y con la espada, por su predominio en el marco de un país desgarrado por la rivalidad entre Francia e Inglaterra. El afán de ensalzar su estirpe originaria con la mítica del hada Melusina ?legendaria fundadora del señorío de Lusignan a mediados del siglo XII y madre de diez hijos marcados por su linaje monstruoso y demoníaco, pero ferviente cristiana a raíz de su boda con el noble caballero Raimondín?, se eleva a los inicios de un destino heroico: la lucha contra el Sacro Imperio y la conquista de los reinos cruzados de Ultramar.

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