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Here is the inspiring story of a man who overcame childhood polio to live an adventure-filled life as captain of Maine's most famous windjammer, the schooner Adventure, now a National Historic Landmark in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Captain Jim shares his adventures afloat, his battles with bureaucracy, and even how he created one of Maine's most unusual restaurants.

The founding fathers-reframed! Tired of reading about stiff, snooze-worthy revolutionary rebels? How about lackluster wars and mind-numbing laws? Not Your Father's Founders breathes life back into history with dynamic profiles of the politicos, wartime heroes, and lesser-known but equally important...

This text has established itself as one of the most highly regarded studies on the subject. Revised, updated and expanded, this second edition incorporates the latest research and includes more discussion of the League, reparations, Eastern Europe, Russia and the Near and Middle East. It also features a new map and Chronology.

The 54 walks in this guidebook explore the popular region around Mont Blanc (4808m), the highest mountain in Western Europe, showcasing the very best routes on both the French and the Italian sides of the massif. Includes 50 great day walks of 3-20km, and 4 multi-day treks, taking in a variety of...

The 134km Tour of Monte Rosa is a challenging and very varied trek that takes a high route around the massif, in a circuit that begins and ends in Zermatt. The trek is described in eight stages, but these are not necessarily one-day stages, and some will be more comfortably achieved over two days...

So you want it all. Yes you can have it all plus. This is a very frank book on how to start a new relationship and how to build on that relationship to make it the best for both people. These are direct techniques regarding your relationship. It covers; sexual beings vs. emotional beings,...

A young woman learns about painting—and more—in 1940s Paris in this “outrageously funny” novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Eye of Love (Newark Evening News). Eighteen-year-old Martha is blessed with the opportunity of a lifetime: an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris...

How new media and visual artists provide alternative ways for understanding and visualizing the entanglements of media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific. Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental...

No Regrets, No Remorse, winner of the first Poisoned Pen Press Discover Mystery Contest. Sydney Simone, wounded herself, is dedicated to helping via a cloaked website and identity those whose wrongs can't be righted by orthodox means. First she verifies the client's story; then she accepts...

To Travel Lite, Pt.1 is the chronicle of a nonconformist; a woman tollingin search of her true identity. Without any real sense of where the journey would lead her or the impact it will inevitably have on her life she embarks; shyly and awkwardly onward the quest. Many times defeat taunts and attempt...

The most comprehensive Biography yet of Nicole Scherzinger. This book is your ultimate resource for Nicole Scherzinger. Here you will find the most up-to-date 209 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there...

This book is your ultimate Mao Zedong resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Mao Zedong's whole picture right away. Get countless Mao Zedong...

The river, the road, the rails, and the ribbon of canal�these four parallel transportation arteries define the historic corridor that is the Delaware River Scenic Byway. From the French and Indian Wars and the definitive Battle of Trenton in the colony of New Jersey to the mule-drawn barges, river...

New to Buddhism? Or maybe you are curious to know what it is all about? Buddhism is a spiritual philosophy and practice which is thousands of years old; the aim of Buddhism is not to se a dogma that everybody must adhere to, but to answer deep questions about the meaning of life, how the universe...