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Suzette Scholz
Deep in the Heart of Texas: Reflections of Former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
Three former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders offer a look at how the group was manipulated, exploited, and introduced to a world of drugs and self-hatred It is difficult to find the authors' intent in these "confessions" regarding the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. Suzette, Stephanie, and Sheri Scholz were...
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Douglas Edwards
Philosophy Smackdown
From its carnival origins to its current status as a global phenomenon, pro wrestling has a unique presence in popular culture. Part sport and part theatre, the impressive antics of its larger-than-life characters have captured the imaginations of generations of fans, and prompted endless speculatio...
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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
A major history of the shtetl's golden age The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economi...
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Glenn Yago
Junk Bonds: How High Yield Securities Restructured Corporate America
Junk bonds burst into the nation's headlines as the fastest growing and most controversial financial instruments of the 1980s. Branded with an unflattering nickname, these high yield securities were tarnished in the public eye by waves of negative publicity. Critics cast the financiers and entrepren...
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Kristine C. Harper
Make It Rain: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America
Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenomena, and biological behavior are being watched with...
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David S. Brown
Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
Richard Hofstadter (1916-70) was America’s most distinguished historian of the twentieth century. The author of several groundbreaking books, including The American Political Tradition , he was a vigorous champion of the liberal politics that emerged from the New Deal. During his nearly thirty-ye...
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Rev William L Blessing
Inner Earth People And Outer Space People
CENSORED FOR CENTURIES BY THE CHURCH WITH THE BACKING OF WORLD LEADERS! Is There A Golden Paradise Inside Our Earth? Who Pilots The Ships We Call UFOs? Are They Here To Harm Or Help Us? Are the Residents Of This Subterranean World Angels or Devils? Quietly -- without public fanfare -- scientists sea...
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Robert A Russell
This Works
www.RobertARussell.Org It is my hope that this book will meet the needs of those who have grown with me in spiritual understanding, in awareness of the height and depth of God's love, and in realization of man's Oneness with Him; and that those who are taking their first steps on this joyous journ...
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Doctor's Story
A rare, lost to time story from the #1 New York Times –bestselling mystery author―and “the American Agatha Christie”―returns to print.   Watson’s Magazine originally published Mary Roberts Rinehart’s The Doctor’s Story as a serial in 1906. It was the early days of her long car...
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Richard Melzer
Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest (Postcards of America)
The Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest boast a rich history. Title: Postcards from West featured in new book Author: Sandy Battin Publication: The News-Bulletin Date: 11/22/2008 Every month, 700 or so people visit the Harvey House Museum in Belen, bringing stories about their time as a Harvey...
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Emilye Crosby
Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement
After decades of scholarship on the civil rights movement at the local level, the insights of bottom-up movement history remain essentially invisible in the accepted narrative of the movement and peripheral to debates on how to research, document, and teach about the movement. This collection of ori...
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Clare Hardy
SS Ceramic: The Untold Story: Includes the rescue of sole survivor Eric Munday
Launched in the shadow of the Titanic tragedy, The White Star Line's SS Ceramic seemed destined for a quiet life serving the Australian route via South Africa. Yet, scarcely had she completed her maiden voyage, than war broke out, and she found herself requisitioned by the Australian government as a...
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N Riley Heagerty
Etta Wriedt: One of the Greatest American Direct Voice Mediums of the 20th Century
In his tenth work, researcher N. Riley Heagerty delves into the life of Etta Wriedt, one of the great American Direct Voice mediums of the "Heyday of Spiritualism" during the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. In Wriedt's presence, voices of deceased communicators manifested in the room ...
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Actes Sud
Paris Metro Photo
From Brassaï to William Klein: a luxurious homage to the world's most iconic subway At over 300 pages and with around 250 images, this delightful volume looks at the close relationship between photography and the heyday of the Paris metro, covering over a century of photographic documents. The majo...
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Colin Tyson
When Steam Ruled the Roads: A Traction Engine Archive
The period between the late 1800s and the late 1920s was the heyday of the road steam traction engine. Prior to that, ‘portable’ steam engines were pulled by horses from farm to farm to provide the power unit for belting to machinery for tasks such as the annual threshing. The invention of the s...
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Richard Scrivani
The Z Files: Treasures From Zacherley's Archives
Z is for Zacherley, the legendary horror host of SHOCK THEATER fame, and in THE Z FILES the story of his uncanny career is uniquely told almost entirely via archival material. Feast your eyes, glut your soul on -- VINTAGE NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES! HANDWRITTEN NOTES AND TYPEWRITTEN SCRIPTS FRO...
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Naomi Hirahara
Life after Manzanar
From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar , Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the "Resettlement." Life After Manzanar explores the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly impri...
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Leah Dickerman
Robert Rauschenberg
"Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two.)" ―Robert Rauschenberg The early 1950s, when Robert Rauschenberg launched his career, was the heyday of the heroic gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. Rauschenberg challenged this tradit...
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Kurt Andersen
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change—and charts a way back to the future.   “Essential...
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Song Xiaoyu
Secret History of Empress Wu (Best-selling 3rd Edition) (Chinese Edition)
It was a feudal society following the three obediences and the four virtues; it was an era viewing men were superior to women. The legendary woman Wu Zetian experienced several ups and downs and attracted two generations of emperors; she startlingly won the queen's throne step by step, fought for th...
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