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The Enemy Within Never Did Without
German and Japanese Prisoners of War At Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II. Located roughly eight miles east of Huntsville, Texas, in Walker County, the camp was built in 1942 and opened for prisoners the following year. The camp served as a model site for POW installations...
Titanic
A Survivor's Story & the Sinking of the S.S. Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Two survivors' accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. The information contained in Colonel Gracie's story is available from no other source. He provides details of the final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the ocean and of those men who, in a panic, jumped into lifeboats as they...
by Amelia Earhart
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Autobiography of the famous flyer which describes her own ambitions to become a pilot and offers advice to others.
I Was Born a Slave
An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant slave narratives.” They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance,...
The Girl with Three Legs
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Having experienced firsthand the horror of female genital mutilation (FGM), Soraya Miré reveals the personal violation and immense challenges she overcame. This book is at once an intimate revelation, a testament to the empowerment of women, and an indictment of the violent global oppression of women...
The President Is a Sick Man
Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
An extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched exposé. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht and was not heard from for five days. During that time, a team of doctors removed a cancerous tumor from the president’s...
A Kid's Guide to Latino History
More than 50 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Featuring hands-on activities, games, and crafts that introduce children to the diversity of Latino culture, this guide teaches them about the people, experiences, and events that have shaped Hispanic American history. Broken down into sections covering descendants from Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico,...
Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets
Why Women Are the Solution
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
The war for talent is heating up in emerging markets. Without enough brain power,” multinationals can’t succeed in these markets. Yet they’re approaching the war in the wrong way-bringing in expats and engaging in bidding wars for hotshot local male” managers.
The solution is hiding...
In Tearing Haste
Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Now in paperback, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Deborah Devonshire's witty, informative, and altogether delightful correspondence.
In the spring of 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters, invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore...
Hollywood on Lake Michigan
100+ Years of Chicago and the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Ranging from the dawn of the silent era to today’s blockbusters and independent films, this revamped second edition chronicles the significant contributions by Chicago and Chicagoans to more than a century of American filmmaking. Among the Windy City’s unique honors in this history are the development...
Indispensable
When Leaders Really Matter
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Will your next leader be insignificant-or indispensable?
The importance of leadership and the impact of individual leaders has long been the subject of debate. Are they made by history, or do they make it?
In Indispensable, Harvard Business School professor Gautam Mukunda offers an enticingly...
The Moth Snowstorm
Nature and Joy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths “would pack a car’s headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,” is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species...
Cuba and Its Music
From the First Drums to the Mambo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdés, Arsenio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, and Pérez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising,...
Post Black
How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Highlighting certain socioeconomic and cultural trends, this exploration discloses the new dynamics shaping contemporary lives of African Americans. Using information from conversations with mavericks within black communities-such as entrepreneurs, artists, scholars, and activists as well as members...