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  • Here They Come

    "I can imagine both Jane Austen and Raymond Carver pouring over this masterly novel" of a girl's coming-of-age in 1970s New York (Frank McCourt).From the National Endowment for the Arts Award–winning author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Sea of Trees, comes the "shockingly funny" ( Vanity Fair), "wholly unsentimental but peculiarly hopeful portrait of family love and growing up scarred ... Read more

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  • Albrecht Dürer and artworks

    Dürer is the greatest of German artists and most representative of the German mind. He, like Leonardo, was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment, being well grounded in the sciences and mathematics of the day. His skill in draughtsmanship was extraordinary; Dürer is even more celebrated for his engravings on wood and copper ... Read more

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  • Futureproof, A Novel

    Futureproof, #1

    Series Book 1 - Futureproof
    Trust the oceans will subside.Trust the migrants will adapt.Trust your ex-brain will serve you.In the 2050s, our predicted future is reality. The climate has changed. People flee the coasts and the heat zones to survive, and refugees reshape the world. And yet, through technology we adapt. Some of us even thrive. Our external brains, or ex-brains, show us how to solve our problems, help us predict ... Read more

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  • Napoleon's Army in Russia

    The Illustrated Memoirs of Albrecht Adam, 1812

    In 1812 Napoleon's magnificent army invaded Russia. Among the half a million men who crossed the border was Albrecht Adam, a former baker, a soldier and, most importantly for us, a military artist of considerable talent. As the army plunged ever deeper into a devastated Russia Adam sketched and painted. In all he produced 77 colour plates of the campaign and they are as fresh and dramatic as the ... Read more

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  • Revival Movements as Conflict Agendas of the Popular in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    This open access book focuses on the potential for conflict between high and low culture during the transformations of the popular in the field of religion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Specifically, the contributors to this edited collection consider the so-called 'Revival Movements' that came up as a symptom of differentiation and pluralisation of Protestantism in reaction to ... Read more

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  • Earth Emotions

    New Words for a New World

    As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining emotions of the twenty-first century.Earth Emotions ... Read more

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  • Sniper on the Eastern Front

    The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross

    A biography of the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the Knights Cross award.An Austrian conscript who qualified as a Wehrmacht machine gunner, Josef "Sepp" Allerberger was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian Front in July 1942. Wounded at Voroshilovsk, he experimented with a Russian sniper-rifle while ... Read more

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  • From Imagination to Faërie

    Tolkien’s Thomist Fantasy

    Tolkien is one of our most beloved fantasy writers. Such was the power of his imagination that much has been written on his invented world, languages, and myth. This book is an invitation to tread the paths of Tolkien's realm, exploring three regions of his work: language, myth, and imagination. We will be looking for a path leading to a summit from where we can view Tolkien's whole realm. Yannick ... Read more

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  • Build your own city

    The Big Unofficial Lego Builder's Book

    This book addresses all LEGO enthusiasts from 6 years up who are looking for a real challenge: why not build a complete town out of LEGO bricks? After explaining basic techniques and simple models for younger kids this manual provides detailed step by step building instructions for all items necessary to build your own Lego City. From streets, cars, trucks, houses, bus stops, supermarkets, people ... Read more

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  • Soil Fertility, Animal Health

    With "The Loss of Soil Organic Matter and Its Restoration

    Series Book 54 - Living With the Land
    Nature works and has been working for a billion and a half years—ever since there were living things on earth. This is important. We talk of controlling nature, but any wise farmer or stockman knows that nature makes the rules for us to learn and follow, if we can. In short, the ecologist is in a position to furnish us, in many ways, models which we can follow in our own operations.Before the ... Read more

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  • Red Army Sniper

    A Memoir on the Eastern Front in World War II

    'I did not regard myself as a slacker. Even in childhood I taught myself to carry out tasks entrusted conscientiously and carefully. In war, it is no secret that the casual don't survive'.Yevgeni Nikolaev was one of Russias leading snipers of World War II and his memoir provides and unparalleled account of front-line action in crucial theaters of war. Nikolaev is credited with a remarkable 324 ... Read more

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  • Political Automation

    An Introduction to AI in Government and Its Impact on Citizens

    Governments now routinely use AI-based software to gather information about citizens and determine the level of privacy a person can enjoy, how far they can travel, what public benefits they may receive, and what they can and cannot say publicly. What input do citizens have in how these machines think? In Political Automation, Eduardo Albrecht explores this question in various domains, including ... Read more

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