Humbert, Agnès.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2008

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Lubet, Steven.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2004

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Lubet, Steven.

Summary: Describes the story of the man who was entrusted with all of the details of John Brown's plans to capture the Harper's Ferry armory in 1859 and how he was hunted down for a $1,000 bounty and tried as a spy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2012

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Huler, Scott.

Contents: Introduction September 6, 1996: Hurricane Fran and before -- Beaufort of the Admiralty -- In search of the wind -- The Beaufort scale, and who wrote it, in a general way -- Reverse engineering the wind -- "Nature rightly questioned, never lies": the Beaufort scale, nineteenth-century science, and the last eighteenth-century man -- Getting the word out: on the Society for the Diffusion of Useful...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2004

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Hibbert, Christopher

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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1975

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Hobart, Henry

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bureau of History, Dept. of State 1991

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Hibbert, Christopher

Contents: Pt. 1. 1819-1861 -- pt. 2. 1861-1901.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2001

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Boeselager, Philipp Leopold Antonius Hubertus

Summary: Follows Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager and his fellow officers as they begin to understand the horrors perpetrated by the Third Reich and decide that they must assassinate the Führer.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

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Kerbel, Deborah

Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021

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Gore, Albert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007

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Marrin, Albert.

Summary: Discusses Drake, Morgan, Blackbeard, and other pirates and privateers, both men and women, who have roamed the sea since 1500.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1984

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Herbert, Kari

Summary: Profiles fifteen notable women artists, including Georgia O'Keefe, Faith Ringgold, Frida Kahlo, and Tove Jansson.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2019

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Schweitzer, Albert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Albert Schweitzer Institute 1998

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Steinberg, Ellen FitzSimmons

Contents: Preserving the heritage -- Leavened breads and cakes -- Traditions and innovations -- Dainty dishes -- Of cooking and medicinal foods.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007

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Einstein, Albert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2005

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Marrin, Albert.

Summary: A fast-paced account of the life and times of the man who became the first president of the United States.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2001

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Marrin, Albert

Summary: A Polish Jew on the eve of World War II, Janusz Korczak turned down opportunities for escape in order to stand by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka. Marrin examines not just Korczak's life but his ideology of children: that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

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Samaha, Albert

Summary: "A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience. Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the U.S., part of the wave ofnon-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021

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Speer, Albert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Collier Books 1981

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Brown, Mark Herbert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1955

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Donald, David Herbert

Summary: Trace the paths of President Lincoln's life to the Union victory in the Civil War, and then to the reconstruction of a nation struggling for nationhood and equality.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995

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Kohl, Herbert R.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2005

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Baime, A. J. (Albert J.)

Summary: "Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair, White was able to "pass" for white. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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