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With a new chapter in the history of baseball currently being written in Washington, DC, every fan ought to know about history of baseball in the nation’s capital. This book examines the unique relationship between presidents and baseball, the long and intense rivalry of the congressional baseball, and the Washington Senators.

De lange weg naar de vrijheid is de beroemde autobiografie van een van de grootste mannen van de twintigste eeuw. Nelson Mandela beschrijft de lange weg die hij heeft moeten afleggen van onwetende jongen tot charismatisch staatsman. Dit is het verhaal van misschien wel de wonderbaarlijkste omwenteling...

With the death of Nelson Mandela, the world has lost one of its great visionaries, a leader whose influence extends to every corner of the Earth, and whose legacy is scattered in the souls of the millions inspired by his example. To celebrate his life, Star Dispatches releases this special commemorative...

A great deal of the revolutionary work that Charles Nqakula undertookas an ANC underground cadre and combatant of Umkhonto we Sizwewas in the Eastern Cape. This book is a well-documented and detailedrecollection of those difficult and dangerous times when detention,imprisonment, torture, and even...

"In the latest entry to this globetrotting series, a man goes for a tarot reading and winds up poisoned by the daughter he never knew he had. And that’s just one story in a collection that takes us down the mysterious alleys and mazy favelas of Rio, just in time for the Olympic Games." --O,...

This is the story of Southern Rhodesia, from a time of its earliest known inhabitants, the Bushmen, to their displacement by the Bantu; the invasion by the Matabele under King Mzilikaze; the advent of the white missionaries; and the arrival of Cecil Rhodes and his Pioneer Column of early settlers,...

These wide-ranging conversations have an exceptionally open and intimate tone, giving us a personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature. Interviewer Fernando Sorrentino, an Argentinian writer and anthologist, is endowed with literary acumen, sensitivity,...

The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church...

Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), the first to circumnavigate the globe, sailed on behalf of the Spanish monarch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and discovered the straights that now bear his name and the Philippines. “Magellan is written in a tone of astonished...

"If I'm going to be a prostitute, I refuse to be an ordinary one." Known to her clients as "Bruna the Surfer Girl," Surfistinha is the beautiful 17-year-old Brazilian run-away from a middle class family who detailed online her three years working as a prostitute in a posh Brazilian...

I was thirteen. Being thirteen is like being in the middle of nowhere. Which was accentuated by the fact that I was in the middle of nowhere. In a house that wasn't mine. In a city that wasn't mine, in a country that wasn't mine, with a one-man family that, in spite of the intersections and intentions...

 “In this rhapsodic series of poems, Ríos presents the story of Ventura and Clemente Ríos, a married couple living near the United States-Mexico border. . . . Ríos’s project [is] indebted to magic realism but rooted in naturalism.”—The New Yorker“Ríos creates the feeling of enchanted...

2011 Edition. Here's your guidebook to all the magic! The Little Black Book of Walt Disney World is just what you need to navigate the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, Downtown Disney, accommodations, and Disney World's recreation venues! Numbered entries in the text...