Arrian.

Summary: During twelve years of continuous campaigns, Alexander conquered an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the edge of modern India. Arrian's history of those conquests is the most reliable and detailed account to emerge from the ancient world. --from publisher description

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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2012

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Stolzenburg, William.

Summary: A provocative look at how the disappearance of the world's great predators has upset the delicate balance of the environment, and what their disappearance portends for the future, by an acclaimed science journalist.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2008

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Watson, Aldren.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton Publishers 1990

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Aldrin, Buzz.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1989

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Miller, Adrian

Summary: Award winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First Family since George and Martha Washington. Miller brings together the names and words of more than 150 black men and women who played remarkable roles in unforgettable events in the nation's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2017

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Tinniswood, Adrian

Summary: "It's long been accepted that the 1950s and 1960s were a period of steady decline for the British stately country home. In Noble Ambitions, celebrated historian Adrian Tinniswood shows that the postwar history of family seats and great houses is much morenuanced. Tinniswood proves that the country house is not only an iconic symbol, but a lens through which to understand the shifting fortunes...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021

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Forsyth, Adrian.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Camden House 1985

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Matejka, Adrian

Summary: A groundbreaking graphic portrait of boxing legend Jack Johnson, Last On His Feet offers a front-row seat to the Battle of the Century. On the morning of July 4, 1910, thousands of boxing fans stormed a newly built stadium in Reno, Nevada, to witness an epic showdown. Jack Johnson, the world's first Black heavyweight champion--and most infamous athlete in the world because of his race--was...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2023

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Tinniswood, Adrian.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2007

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Steinsaltz, Adin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999

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Adrian, Susan

Summary: Told in two voices, Clover, twelve, and her autistic brother Fergus, eleven, discover they are descended from Wendy Darling and set off with Peter Pan for adventures in Neverland.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

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Bloom, Adrian.

Summary: "Gardening with conifers reveals the unexpected magic that conifers can bring to every garden & the many roles they can play in creating structure & balance for year-round visual interest & color. The author describes 200 of his preferred conifers & offers expert advice on conifers & their origin, size & growth rate, site & soil preferences, planting, maintenance & propagation, pruning, pests &...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2002

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Brooks, Adrian

Summary: Described by gay scholar Jonathan Katz as "willfully cacophonous, a chorus of voices untamed," The Right Side of History sets itself apart by starting with the turn-of-the-century bohemianism of Isadora Duncan and the 1924 establishment of the nation’s first gay group, the Society for Human Rights; it also includes gay activism of labor unions in the 1920s and 1930s; the 1950s civil rights...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cleis Press 2015

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Room, Adrian.

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Publisher / Publication Date: NTC Pub. Group 1997

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Tinniswood, Adrian.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1999

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Leigh, Arden.

Contents: Persona -- The flexible identity -- Personal brands -- Engaging the senses -- Seductive environment : home -- Self-sufficiency -- Social status -- Marketing the self -- Create your following -- Create desire -- Party posturing -- Attraction -- Approach -- Seductive conversation -- Contact : a delicate balance -- Isolate -- Emotional connection -- Find a need -- Seductive environment : the world...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2011

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Bejan, Adrian

Summary: Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011

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Phillips, Adrian

Summary: A radically new view of the British policy of appeasement in the late 1930s, identifying the individuals responsible for a variety of miscalculations and moral surrender that made World War II inevitable. Appeasement failed in all its goals. The kindest thing that can be said of it is that postponed World War II by one year. Its real effect was to convince Hitler and Mussolini that Britain was...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019

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Kennedy, Adrienne

Summary: Adrienne Kennedy has been a force on the American stage since the premiere of her groundbreaking, Obie Award-winning Funnyhouse of a Negro in 1964. Politically engaged, formally daring, and making provocative use of material from contemporary history and popular culture, Kennedy's haunting stage works dramatize and project interior realities that are often marked by disappointment and trauma,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023

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Mayor, Adrienne

Summary: A new account of one of Rome's most relentless but least understood foes. Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father. He fled into exile and returned in triumph to become a ruler of superb intelligence and fierce ambition. Hailed as a savior by his followers and feared as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009

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Dobkin, Adin

Summary: "On June 29, 1919, one day after the Treaty of Versailles brought about the end of World War I, nearly seventy cyclists embarked on the thirteenth Tour de France. From Paris, the war-weary men rode down the western coast on a race that would trace the country's border, through seaside towns and mountains to the ghostly western front. Traversing a cratered postwar landscape, the cyclists faced...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021

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Watson, Aldren Auld

Summary: Describes the history, community, and daily life of the early American furniture maker, the types of wood he chose, his shop, tools, techniques, and business affairs.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1974

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Arlen, Alice

Summary: "The fascinating biography of the maverick newspaperwoman, equestrian, aviatrix and intrepid adventurer Alicia Patterson, which follows her exceptional exploits through the first half of the 20th century, from her troublemaking days as the middle child of complicated parents to her successes as publisher of the Pulitzer Prize winning Newsday"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2016

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Dingle, Adrian

Summary: Explores the periodic table, by showing how they can be combined to create an entire universe.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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