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Seize the Trident
'Seize the Trident re-creates the Anglo-German race to build the biggest, fastest, most luxurious passenger ships in the world. Sparked in 1889 by the kaiser's declaration that he would 'seize the trident' from English shipping firms, this friendly rivalry soon became a clash of fierce national pride, personal ego, and global ambitions, including those of wealthy robber barons such as J. P. Morgan. Douglas Burgess delivers a riveting account of the race's origins, how it both paralleled and influenced the naval rearmament of the same period, and the crowning irony of its outcome. In size and splendor, the Germans won hands-down, but German ships in U.S. ports were seized at the outbreak of World War I. Later, they would carry hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops to fight against Germany. 'Seize the Trident is must reading for maritime enthusiasts, history buffs, and anyone impressed by the splendor of this bygone era. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - Used Item: 461716469
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Buy Lie and Sell High How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble
Author offers the first systematic analysis of both the Internet stock bubble and the Enron scandal. He uncovers both the systematic causes and outrageous misbehavior that contributed to Enron's losses. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - Used Item: 461111168
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Word by Word Primary Phonics Picture Dictionary Paperback
A phonics-based presentation of over 1000 English words through illustrations includes an introduction to phonemic awareness, decoding and word recognition, and vocabulary concepts and skills development. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - Used Item: 461661451
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Introduction to Matlab
http://www.prenhall.com/esource FEATURES: Text thoroughly updated to cover version 5 Adds over 30 new examples to the text as well as new practice and end-of-chapter problems Features extensive new coverage of Matlab programming and symbolic math - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - Used Item: 461111201
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Democracy Derailed Initiative Campaigns and The Power of Money
The 'dean of American political journalism' (Brill's Content) exposes how political operatives and moneyed special interest groups are threatening our democracy. A new form of government is sweeping across America: The initiative process, available in half the states and hundreds of cities. Where once most state laws were passed by legislatures, now voters decide directly on such explosive issues as drugs, affirmative action, casino gambling, assisted suicide, and human rights. Ostensibly driven by public opinion, the initiative process is, in reality, manipulated by moneyed interests, often funded by out-of-state millionaires pursuing their own agendas. In this highly controversial book, David Broder tells how this revolution came about. A movement that started with Proposition 13 in California is now a multimillion-dollar business in which lawyers, campaign consultants, signature gatherers, and advertising agencies sell their expertise to interest groups or to do-gooders with private agendas. Broder takes the reader into the heart of these battles as he talks with the field operatives, lobbyists, PR spinners, labor leaders, and business executives, all of whom can manipulate the political process. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - Used Item: 461402396
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Handbook of Computer Crime Investigation
Helps readers master the forensic analysis of computer systems with a three-part approach covering tools, technology, and case studies. Softcover. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461505904
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Modern Latin America
This popular book, now in its fifth edition, is a livery interpretive history that continues to be one of Oxford's most successful books. Modern Latin America, 5/e has been thoroughly revised and expanded. The authors have added socio-cultural sections and boxes to nearly every chapter. It covers such diverse areas as the Argentine Tango, Santera in Cuba, and the recent boom in the popularity of Latin music in the United States, all of which give this edition a distinctly new and exalting flavor. All political and economic information has been brought up-to-date and, as in earlier editions, the authors use an in-depth case study approach that guides readers through the major countries of South America, highlighting central themes including European-New World interaction, racial mixtures, military takeovers, and U.S. intervention in the area. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461508154
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ARTS & IDEAS
Traces the development of painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, and philosophy from ancient times to the present, focusing on five main stylistic periods - Books/Reading - Misc. - Used - 460835584
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Northanger Abbey Lady Susan The Watsons Sanditon
'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.' Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings. What could be more remote from the uneventful securities of life in the midland counties of England? Yet as Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn, and edginess and circumspection are reaffirmed alongside comedy and literary burlesque. Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this valuable new edition examines the ambitious and innovative works with which she inaugurated as well as closed her career. - Books/Reading - Misc. - Used - 461507903
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Gulliver's Travels
The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; an island of sorcerers; and a country ruled by horses. - Books/Reading - Misc. - Used - 461717312
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The Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 6 2 500 Headwords Pride and Prejudice
The books are graded at six vocabulary levels, ranging from 400 words (Beginning) to 2,500 words (Advanced). - Books/Reading - Misc. - Used - 461114644
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Legend of Jimmy Spoon
The adventures of a young white boy living among the Shoshoni Indians during the early frontier days. - Books/Reading - Misc. - Used - 461662451
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