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    How Eisenhower's 1919 Convoy Paved the Way for the Roads We Travel

    All roads begin somewhere and today’s U. S. highway system began with an exploratory, cross-country ride, led by 28-year-old Army lieutenant colonel, Dwight Eisenhower. This is the story of that coast-to-coast journey and how the dream of connecting America with roads began.Before he led the liberation of Europe, before he became our nation’s 34th President, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s made a road trip ... Read more

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  • DSLR Photography for Beginners

    Take 10 Times Better Pictures in 48 Hours or Less! Best Way to Learn Digital Photography, Master Your DSLR Camera & Improve Your Digital SLR Photography Skills

    by Brian Black ...
    The Original "DSLR Photography for Beginners". FULL COLOR EBOOKWho Else Wants to Take Mind Blowing Pictures?If you want to stand out from the crowd and capture all those magic moments for posterity, you have come to the right place. Most guides to Digital SLR photography will overwhelm you with jargon, but you and I both know that’s not what photography is all about.When I first started out... ... Read more

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  • Energy in North American Environmental History

    Series series Themes in Environmental History
    Taking North America as its focus, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of humanity’s evolving relationship with energy.As humans have sought to live and develop the North American continent, energy from Earth’s basic elements has served as the raw material for living. Through its chronological approach and critical case studies, the volume examines how the search for and harvest and use ... Read more

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  • DSLR Photography for Beginners

    Take 10 Times Better Pictures in 48 Hours or Less! Best Way to Learn Digital Photography, Master Your DSLR Camera & Improve Your Digital SLR Photography Skills

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    THE ORIGINAL "DSLR Photography for Beginners"(Please note that the PAPERBACK version is in black and white to keep the price you pay low)Who Else Wants to Take Mind Blowing Pictures?If you want to stand out from the crowd and capture all those magic moments for posterity, you have come to the right place. Most guides to Digital SLR photography will overwhel... ... Read more

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  • To Have and Have Not

    Energy in World History

    Series series Exploring World History
    A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleWritten by a leading scholar, this essential introduction to the history of energy traces one of humans' most basic ecological interactions: energy exchange. From fire to agriculture, water wheels to electric dynamos, the rise in intensity led humans to define a new “high energy” existence during the twentieth century. Industrialization and ... Read more

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  • Petrolia

    The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom

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    Series series Creating the North American Landscape
    Winner of the Paul H. Giddens Prize in Oil History from Oil Heritage Region, Inc.In Petrolia, Brian Black offers a geographical and social history of a region that was not only the site of America's first oil boom but was also the world's largest oil producer between 1859 and 1873. Against the background of the growing demand for petroleum throughout and immediately following the Civil War, Black ... Read more

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  • The Overnighters

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    Behind each door of the roadside motel a drama is played out--A LIFE IS RESHAPEDRoom 1—Janet Harris, schoolteacher, trades her virginity for a strange lesson in sex...Room 2—Rita Greene, teenager, discovers more than she wants to know about men...Room 3—Flora Blackton, housewife, is forced to watch her husband's violent perversions...Room 4—Hilde Larson, secretary, seduces her boss...Room 5 ... Read more

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  • Petrolia

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    Series series Creating the North American Landscape
    This award-winning history provides a fascinating look at the Civil War era oil boom in western Pennsylvania and its devastating impact on the region.In Petrolia, Brian Black offers a geographical and social history of a region that was not only the site of America's first oil boom but was also the world's largest oil producer between 1859 and 1873. Against the background of the growing demand for ... Read more

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  • Skeleton Keys

    The Secret Life of Bone

    “A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone.” —Wall Street JournalOur bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen.Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over more than four hundred million years of evolutionary history. It gives your body its shape and the ability to move. It grows and changes with you ... Read more

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  • Exposure Mastery: Aperture, Shutter Speed & ISO: The Difference Between Good and Breathtaking Photographs

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