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    A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Paperback)
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    A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Paperback)

    From the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the world's youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office, comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation...
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    A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Hardcover) A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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    A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Hardcover)

    From the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the world's youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office, comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation...
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  • THE APO$TATE THE APO$TATE
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    THE APO$TATE

    The Apostate is a whistleblower's account of the Deep State Better Business Bureau's awards racket that funds a covert seditious anti-American new world order agenda. The author alleges that the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) launched...
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  • Drifting in the Wake Drifting in the Wake
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    Drifting in the Wake

    Drifting in the Wake traces the life of Orville Wright from a humble childhood to adventures world-wide, from testing helicopters to recovering Skylab astronauts, to blowing up mines in Hai Phong Harbor, Vietnam. He played Hollywood celebrity tennis with...
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  • Orwell Reconsidered Orwell Reconsidered
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    Orwell Reconsidered

    George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture. He is regularly invoked as an authority by journalists, commentators and politicians, and his works speak with increasing relevance to our polarised and media-saturated society...
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  • Vanishing Generation Vanishing Generation
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    Vanishing Generation

    As a young reporter in Uzbekistan, Bagila Bukharbayeva was a witness to her countrys search for an identity after the collapse of the Soviet Union. While self-proclaimed religious leaders argued about what was the true Islam, Bukharbayeva shows how some...
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  • Mama  Dida Mama  Dida
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    Mama Dida

    Leo Teohari was born in Constanta, Romania. Leo holds both a law degree and a degree in international economics.Leo defected from Communist Romania in 1980, and settled with his family in Toronto, Canada, where he became a businessman. Today he writes...
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  • One Foot over the Edge One Foot over the Edge
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    One Foot over the Edge

    "The scars we show become lighthouses for those about to hit the same rock." - ANONYMOUS.A quote from the screenplay written by Katelyn Wells, adapted from the book ONE FOOT OVER THE EDGE.A true story of a young Canadian Soldier returning home from a...
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  • Canadian Paratrooper Canadian Paratrooper
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    Canadian Paratrooper

    In the year of 1942, during World War 2 the first Canadian paratroopers started training. The first Airborne unit, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion was formed, going into its first battle on June 6, 1944 (D-Day). It was disbanded when W.W. 2 ended, but...
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  • The Red Leather Diary The Red Leather Diary
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    The Red Leather Diary

    "A world straight from the pages of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. . . . An extraordinary story about coming of age, following your dreams and discovering (or rediscovering) who you are, were and want to be." -- ParadeRescued from a Dumpster on the Upper...
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  • Ambling Into History Ambling Into History
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    Ambling Into History

    The unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush. As the principal New York Times reporter assigned to cover George W. Bush's presidential campaign from its earliest stages - and then as a White House correspondent - Frank Bruni has spent as much time around...
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  • The Queen's Slave Trader The Queen's Slave Trader
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    The Queen's Slave Trader

    Throughout history, blame for the introduction of slavery in America has been squarely placed upon the slave traders who ravaged African villages, the merchants who auctioned off human lives as if they were cattle, and the slave owners who ruthlessly...
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  • One Matchless Time One Matchless Time
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    One Matchless Time

    "Nothing less than spellbinding . . . It's an eye-opener. Anecdotal without being tawdry, analytical without being academic, it captures the essence of Faulkner's life with the narrative drive of a novel." -- Houston Chronicle"A splendid life of William...
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  • Journey to a Revolution Journey to a Revolution
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    Journey to a Revolution

    The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War and a major turning point in history. Though it ended unsuccessfully, the spontaneous uprising of Hungarians against their country's Communist party and the...
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  • Confessions of a Tax Collector Confessions of a Tax Collector
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    Confessions of a Tax Collector

    Twelve years ago, Richard Yancey answered a blind ad in the newspaper offering a salary higher than what he'd made over the three previous years combined. It turned out that the job was for the Internal Revenue Service -- the most hated and feared...
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  • The York Patrol The York Patrol
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    The York Patrol

    "Exceptional military history worthy of its heroic subject." --Matthew J. DavenportIn the vein of Band of Brothers and American Sniper, a riveting history of Alvin York, the World War I legend who killed two dozen Germans and captured more than 100,...
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  • Maria's Memories Maria's Memories
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    Maria's Memories

    From the quaint village of Katharinendorf, nestled in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, comes the story of a young girl whose adventures lead her beyond her wildest dreams. A country barren, rugged and even cruel awaits her and her tenacious...
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  • Not Looking for Trouble Not Looking for Trouble
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    Not Looking for Trouble

    "And Bill Fatsis? What struck me most was the personal resilience he showed . . . Resilience is in the nature of a country of immigrants and opportunity . . . Of course, Bill Fatsis' story is personal. All our stories are. But they also shine a light on...
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  • To Remain Vigilant To Remain Vigilant
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    To Remain Vigilant

    England, circa 1400: Lauded by bards and envied by champions, Sir Harry Percy strides the earth with brash, graceful energy-and at the sound of his bootsteps, kings tremble. Nicknamed Hotspur for his audacity and unceasing vigilance (as if his spurs...
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  • Edwin Rogers Embree Edwin Rogers Embree
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    Edwin Rogers Embree

    One of the most influential philanthropists of the early 20th century, Edwin Rogers Embree was the scion of generations of abolitionists and integrationists. He ably served the Rockefeller Foundation and when Julius Rosenwald created a foundation for his...
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  • Maclure of New Harmony Maclure of New Harmony
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    Maclure of New Harmony

    Maclure of New Harmony follows the twists and turns of William Maclure's intriguing life. A native Scotsman, Maclure (1763-1840) became a merchant, made a fortune, and retired in his early thirties. Then his life became interesting. Fascinated by the...
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  • Richard G. Lugar, Statesman of the Senate Richard G. Lugar, Statesman of the Senate
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    Richard G. Lugar, Statesman of the Senate

    Two-time chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard G. Lugar has been one of the most widely respected foreign policy experts in Congress for over three decades. In this illuminating profile, John T. Shaw examines Lugar's approach to...
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  • Khomeini's Ghost Khomeini's Ghost
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    Khomeini's Ghost

    A compelling, authoritative account of Ayatollah Khomeini and his baleful legacy from the bestselling author of Saddam: His Secret Life - with a new chapter covering the Iranian election and its bloody aftermath
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  • Canada Here We Come Canada Here We Come
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    Canada Here We Come

    Times have changed since 1961 when Steffie Steinke, along with her husband and little daughter immigrated to Canada, and now she questions the changes Canada has made to its immigration laws to favor immigrants to the point where she is afraid it has...
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  • Remembering Randall Remembering Randall
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    Remembering Randall

    When Randall Jarrell died in 1965, he left behind a critically acclaimed body of poetry, fiction and literary criticism that has earned him a permanent place in American literature. In these seven essays, his widow writes lovingly and knowingly about the...
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  • Irving Howe - Socialist, Critic, Jew Irving Howe - Socialist, Critic, Jew
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    Irving Howe - Socialist, Critic, Jew

    For over 50 years, from the 1940s to the 1990s, Irving Howe was a commanding, if controversial, figure in American intellectual life. Writing with the productivity of a major industry, Howe took on issues ranging from left-wing politics and American...
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  • Kick Em In The Guts Kick Em In The Guts
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    Kick Em In The Guts

    "We rode powerful beast's into battle, with a rumbel and roar that is hard to forget, it taks you with it and the buzz never goes away!""As I was to find out once Vietnam runs her exotic fingers thru your soul you are never the same...
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  • The Highland Seed The Highland Seed
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    The Highland Seed

    This book was started by my father, Patrick Keith, nearly 20 years ago as an endeavour of the heart. His first book, "Ousted", was published in early 2005, the same year that he died. It was an insider's account of Singapore's expulsion from the...
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  • A Man of Honour A Man of Honour
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    A Man of Honour

    This is a study of the extraordinary political career of Prince Adam Czartoryski, a Polish patriot who rose to become foreign minister of the Russian Empire under Tsar Alexander I. A controversial figure in the history of both Poland and Russia,...
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  • Premier's State
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    Premier's State

    'In May 1994, while I was going through pre-selection for the seat of Williamstown, I sat down at my desk at home and I wrote a note. I was thirty-nine years old and in that note I mapped out what I hoped would happen in my life.'By the time he was...
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  • Afghanistan Conflict and Australia's Role
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    Afghanistan Conflict and Australia's Role

    A decade after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, the country continues to face a growing insurgency and crises of governance. The Afghanistan Conflict and Australia's Role tackles a number of critical dimensions-politics, society,...
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  • Latham Diaries
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    Latham Diaries

    Here are the political diaries of one of Australia's most promising national leaders—published within twelve months of his resignation from office—an historic first. The Latham Diaries are searingly honest bulletins from the front line of Labor politics...
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  • Costello Memoirs
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    Costello Memoirs

    In a political career spanning more than eighteen years, Peter Costello, Australia's longest serving Treasurer, steered the Government through some of its greatest economic and political challenges, paying off Government debt, introducing the GST and...
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    Global Marxism Global Marxism
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    Global Marxism

    Arguing against the idea that Marxism is a Eurocentric theory with nothing to teach the Global South, this book explores the lives and ideas of a remarkable set of revolutionaries, from Ho Chi Minh to Ali Shariati.
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    Transitions in Leadership

    Transitions in Leadership is the story of a veterans' transition program conducted at the university level for men and women of the armed forces as they transition from a military career and mindset to a civilian career and mindset. This unique master of...
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  • Through the Eyes of a PFC 1942-1945 Through the Eyes of a PFC 1942-1945
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    Through the Eyes of a PFC 1942-1945

    Since the advent of war, history has recorded the exploits of the generals or the heroic deeds of a few individuals. Although the commanders might acknowledge the exploits of their regiments, history books generally have neglected the cogs in the...
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