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Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet, and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated when she was young, and her mother insisted on a logic-focused education, rejecting Byron's "mad" love of poetry. But Ada remained fascinated with her father and considered mathematics "poetical science." Via her friendship with inventor Charles Babbage, she became involved in "programming" his Analytical Engine, a precursor...
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Creating a Homeland is the true, story of two families from Eastern Europe whose dedication, sacrifice, and pioneering spirit helped bring about the modern State of Israel, as a homeland for Jews anywhere: Sam, the young man with two engineering degrees, who speaks seven languages, who gives up a promising engineering career in France, to work as a technician fixing refrigerators in the desert of Palestine; Leah, the young girl, who joins the Haganah...
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The first comprehensive biography of an important yet understudied figure in the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
This book tells the compelling story of the young legal activist Adriaen van der Donck (1618—1655), whose fight to secure the struggling Dutch colony of New Netherland made him a controversial but pivotal figure in early America. At best, he has been labeled a hero, a visionary, and a spokesman of the people. At worst, he has been branded...
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When a newspaper article about a murdered mobster from the 1940s is, discovered in her grandmother's secret drawer, award-winning photographer and author Jana Marcus is launched into a decades-long quest to uncover her family's hidden history and solve a 75-year-old cold case. But the search is a mere prologue to a far greater puzzle that takes her deep into the origins of her Jewish immigrant roots, corruption at the highest levels of New York's...
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In this phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Neil Cavuto shares the inspirational stories of an array of personal heroes, many of whom motivated him to continue his career as he battled cancer and multiple sclerosis. Joining the nascent Fox News Channel in 1996, Neil was set to establish himself as one of business journalism's most important players. Ten years after being diagnosed with cancer, however, Cavuto was dealt another body blow: He was...
48386) Vertige du réel
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Après 37 ans de vie commune, Patrick-Pierre Dhombres se souvient, dans cet ouvrage, de son épouse alors décédée. Il y dépeint une relation d'abord fusionnelle, puis houleuse et déchirée avec l'usure du temps. Bien plus, l'auteur nous partage ici le résultat d'une longue introspection sur l'histoire de ces trois dernières années, de la révolte des gilets jaunes en passant par la montée de l'intégrisme, sans oublier les deux premiers confinements....
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In 2010 Alex Rodriquez achieved a major milestone. He became the seventh person in Major League Baseball (MLB) history-and the youngest-to hit 600 home runs. The previous year had also been stellar-for both him and his New York Yankee team. As USA TODAY, the Nation's No. 1 Newspaper, puts it, "Rodriguez, baseball's richest and perhaps greatest all-around player with three MVP awards, finally got his proudest possession-a World Series championship."...
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A fiercely honest and moving story of how Joan Rivers, one of comedy's greatest stars, survived the worst that life could throw at her, how she hit bottom and then made it back to the top.
"There are many self-help books by Ph.D's, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A. - I've Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment but on gauze, and it entitles me to tell you that there is a way to get through any misfortune." -From Bouncing...
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Noubaissem, in the Sara dialect in Chad, means "God is with me." Baroumbaye means "to call me one day." If the author's name has accomplished anything in his life, it is much more divine grace.
Grace is from the Hebrew word chanan or the Greek word charis, meaning "the state of kindness and favor toward someone, often with a focus on a benefit given to the object" (Strong's Greek 5485). Grace is what God does because he is gracious. Every action...
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Leutnant Gerhard Ehlert was one of the few survivors of 2. Nachtaufklärungsstaffel, part of the Luftwaffe's 6th Air Fleet, which operated on Eastern Front during the Second World War. Although he came from a family that spoke out against Hitler and the Nazi regime, he volunteered to join the Luftwaffe. He went on to undertake combat patrols under the most extreme circumstances. Facing hazardous weather conditions – often landing his aircraft 'blind'...
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Susan Farrell's evocative account of what it was like to grow up in rural Armagh and Tyrone, a world rooted in tradition and in the seasons.
Beginning with her grandparents, Susan uses food to trace the legacy of her upbringing: Nanny Wylie, 'quick as a magician', making bread; her aunts cycling twenty miles to the Irish border to buy butter, dried fruit and sugar for her parents' wedding cake; food remedies and broths; and the endless supply of...
48392) Companion to an Untold Story
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When Marcia Aldrich's friend took his own life at the age of forty-six, they had known each other many years. As part of his preparations for death, he gave her many of his possessions, concealing his purposes in doing so, and when he committed his long-contemplated act, he was alone in a bare apartment.
In Companion to an Untold Story, Aldrich struggles with her own failure to act on her suspicions about her friend's intentions. She pieces together...
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Biddy Mason's life began as an enslaved person. She had to walk 2000 miles to reach California, but once there, she gained her freedom. She became a successful nurse, midwife, and land owner, and left behind a legacy of caring and charity. This primary source reader integrates literacy and social studies content knowledge, and uses maps, letters, images, and photographs to engage students and develop their curiosity about the people and the world...
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Un voyage vers le monde poétique de Miyazaki.
Avec sa mise en scène poétique et ses thématiques universelles, comme l'importance de la nature, Hayao Miyazaki est l'un des artistes les plus respectés du monde du cinéma et de l'animation. D'abord réservées à un public japonais, ses œuvres ont fini par toucher le marché occidental. En France, Le Voyage de Chihiro etLe Château Ambulant ont dépassé le million d'entrées dans les salles obscures....
48395) My Captain America: A Memoir
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A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author's relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain America.
In the 1990s, Megan Margulies's Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the "Wild Man of 96th Street," who set fires under cars and heaved rocks through stained glass church windows. The world inside her parents' tiny one-bedroom...
48396) The Accidental Adventurer
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Have you ever wanted to know how to achieve your goals? Live your dream? Understand the meaning of it all? Do you want to change the inner chatter in your mind that stops you from your fullest living life?
Nahla Summers will take you on a journey of resilience, purpose, facing fears and taking the time to stop and stare. From a place of deep sorrow, Nahla transformed her life by travelling 8,000 miles raising nearly 250,000 acts of kindness.
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Struck by cancer twice, shattered by his wife's death, his family rocked by a murder; any one of these could be enough to overwhelm a person. But, there is more.
Giving up his dream of becoming a top stud dairy farmer in Australia, Graham's incredible journey takes him to Africa and 18 years in Ghana. Returning to various leadership responsibilities in Australia and East Timor, he continues with roles that include international responsibility.
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In San Francisco 49ers: Where Have You Gone?, memories are revisited through profiles of 49 former players, ranging from colorful Visco Grgich, an original member of the organization, to Steve Young, the Hall of Fame quarterback. Other Hall of Famers from the team's rich past include Joe Perry, Hugh McElhenny, Y. A. Tittle, and Bob St. Clair. But what has become of these players since? Many former 49ers players achieved their greatest accomplishments...
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Though Eleanor Roosevelt was born into wealth, she still took great responsibility for the poor and struggling. This title takes you through Eleanor's life and depicts how she forever changed the role of the First Lady. Complete with a timeline and wonderful historical photographs.
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Rarely, has there ever been an insider's account as graphic as The Greed of a Dime.
Hard hitting… gut wrenching… can only begin to describe this mind-boggling trip inside the high stakes journey of this back-yard inventor. From getting past the front door, to the incredible showdown with one of America's high-profile CEO's, this true story will transport you deep inside the inner workings of Honeywell International and its once mighty, Automotive...