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In spite of being dead for more than two hundred years, Benjamin Franklin remains an object of fascination for many history buffs. He was a diplomat, postmaster, political theorist, politician, scientist, satirist, musician, civic activist, and so much more.

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"It's like the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth century," said one former party whip. "You show them the Bible but also the instruments of torture."

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The updated paperback edition of the first major biography of Britain's new Prime Minister. New material will cover her premiership during 2017; from invoking Article 50, her meeting with President Trump to the calling of a snap general election.

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Twenty days after Britain's dramatic vote to leave the European Union, a new Prime Minister has captured Downing Street. Theresa May's task now is to bring together a divided country, at the moment of perhaps its greatest challenge since the Second World War. Theresa May tells the story of one of the most extraordinary people ever to enter No. 10.

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"This is a genuine Vireo book"--Title page verso.

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"The story of US Navy nurse Dorothy Still and her colleagues at a military hospital in the Philippines, who cared for their fellow prisoners of war while being held captive by the Japanese during World War II"--

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This is the first, long overdue biography of Thomas Mackay, a major promoter of Ottawa as the capital of Canada. Mackay built the Ottawa and Hartwell Locks of the Rideau Canal, founded New Edinburgh and the Rideau Falls mill complex, built Rideau Hall, and financed the Ottawa and Prescott Railway.

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Stirring, poignant stories humanize great historical tragedies with interviews and accounts of individuals affected by European and South American fascism.

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Award-winning author Erich Hackl humanizes great historical tragedies with stirring and poignant stories of individuals affected by mid-century Fascism.

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An Iraqi war veteran's powerful testament to the true cost of war.

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Una's mother, HildaPediani, had been one of his agents and one of many lovers. He married her sothat Una would be legitimate, but took no part in the child's upbringing. It wasa rare sympathetic act by a man who was capable of great bravery, but littlecompassion.

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Presenting a biography of Daniel Ortega, this title tells the story of Nicaragua's continuing struggle for liberation. It traces Ortega's life from his childhood in Nicaragua's mountainous mining region, where his parents instilled in him a hatred of Yankee imperialism.

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An autobiography of a slave's rise to distinction which asserts that a strong work ethic and excellence in whatever one is doing will be rewarded no matter what race or what position a person holds in life.

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A fearless young Swede whose efforts saved countless Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of Adolf Eichmann, Raoul Wallenberg was one of the true heroes to emerge during the Nazi occupation of Europe.

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We Stick Together: Lessons Learned from Commanding USS THE SULLIVANS (DDG-68) is a leadership memoir that takes readers along on a journey of discovery with the crew across the seas and into the soul. This book explores and explains what it means to be a surface warfare officer aboard an historic ship in the post-Cold War, post-9/11 world.

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In this book, Bernie Sanders details the core values of the progressive movement and translates them into the actions that will truly uplift the nation and the world.