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Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a dramatic visual design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions and other valuable features. Original.
Ricardo Baca |
Jad Davenport |
Martha Schindler Connors |
Kyle Wagner
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Late in the night of April 14, 1912, the mighty "Titanic," a passenger liner traveling from Southampton, England, to New York City, struck an iceberg four hundred miles south of Newfoundland. Its sinking over the next two and a half hours brought the ship--mythological in name and size--one hundred years of infamy. Of the 2,240 people aboard the ship, 1,517 perished either by drowning or by freezing to death in the frigid North Atlantic waters. What followed the disaster was tantamount to a worldwide outpouring of grief: In New York, Paris, London, and other major cities, people lined the streets and crowded around the offices of the White Star Line, the "Titanic"'s shipping company, to inquire for news of their loved ones and for details about the lives of some of the famous people of their time. While many accounts of the "Titanic"'s voyage focus on the technical or mechanical aspects of why the ship sank, "Voyagers of the Titanic" follows the stories of the men, women, and children whose lives intersected on the vessel's fateful last day, covering the full range of first, second, and third class---from plutocrats and captains of industry to cobblers and tailors looking for a better life in America. Richard Davenport-Hines delves into the fascinating lives of those who ate, drank, reveled, dreamed, and died aboard the mythic ship: from John Jacob Astor IV, the wealthiest person on board, whose comportment that night was subject to speculation and gossip for years after the event, to Archibald Butt, the much-beloved military aide to Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft, who died helping others into the "Titanic"'s few lifeboats. With magnificent prose, "Voyagers of the Titanic" also brings to life the untold stories of the ship's middle and third classes--clergymen, teachers, hoteliers, engineers, shopkeepers, counterjumpers, and clerks--each of whom had a story that not only illuminates the fascinating ship but also the times in which it sailed. In addition, Davenport-Hines explores the fascinating politics behind the "Titanic"'s creation, which involved larger-than-life figures such as J. P. Morgan, the ship's owner, and Lord Pirrie, the ship's builder. The memory of this tragedy still remains a part of the American psyche and "Voyagers of the Titanic" brings that clear night back to us with all of its drama and pathos.
Richard Davenport-Hines
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Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, ‘Titanic Lives’ is an utterly compelling exploration of the lives of the passengers and crew on board the most famous ship in history.
Richard Davenport-Hines
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THE BRIEF WADSWORTH HANDBOOK, Seventh Edition, provides students with extensive coverage of rhetorical concerns, the writing and research process, writing and researching with computers, and other topics essential for twenty-first-century student writers. This versatile and proven text is a uniquely effective guide to help students develop the critical thinking, reading, and writing skills they need to become successful communicators in college and beyond. Practicing teachers and collaborative writing partners throughout their careers, Kirszner and Mandell bring an "in-the-trenches" pragmatic understanding of instructor and student needs to every page of this seventh edition.
Laurie G. Kirszner |
Stephen R. Mandell
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A SCANDALOUS PROPOSAL... Rachel Meredith is beautiful, witty, an heiress--and single! She's turned down every offer of marriage and jilted the most eligible bachelor, handsome Major Connor Flinte. When her father loses her family home in a game of cards, Rachel is furious! Especially as the new owner is Connor Flinte, now the Earl of Devane. She will do anything to get her home back. But Connor wants revenge--he'll return the deeds of the estate on one condition. Rachel must give him the wedding night he never had....
Mary Brendan
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A delightfully wicked look at the badly behaved characters who shaped the history of Montana through their deeds and misdeeds.
Dave Walter |
Jon Axline |
Jodie Foley |
Ellen Baumler |
Salina Davis
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The Historical Dictionary of Colombia covers the history of Colombia through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is a vital reference tool for anyone interested in Colombia.
John H Ottemiller |
Denise L. Montgomery
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One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship on slavery that has emerged in the 15 years since the first edition. While the structure of the book remains the same, Wilma King has expanded its scope to include the international dimension with a new chapter on the transatlantic trade in African children, and the book's geographic boundaries now embrace slave-born children in the North. She includes data about children owned by Native Americans and African Americans, and presents new information about children's knowledge of and participation in the abolitionist movement and the interactions between enslaved and free children.
Wilma King
Social Science
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The Willie Handcart Company of 1856 was a trial and a miracle. You will feel apart of the company as you follow three of its members in a moving masterpiece that will take you from the green fields of Denmark to the icy peaks of the Rockies in a saga that elevates and enriches those that it touches.
David Farland
Fiction
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Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to the world, showing how hearing and listening can inform people's feelings, ideas, decisions, and actions. Book jacket.
Michael Stamm
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