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  • Vision Infinity for Food Security

    Some Whys, Why Nots and Hows!

    by Shashi B. Sharma, John A. Wightman ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    A new perspective on the global food security situation and highlights the need for seeking a common vision and implementing global planning to define the manner in which the human species will manage its food security. The basic question of ‘is there enough food’ is examined in general and then in some detail. The history of food production is reviewed in the hope that lessons can be learned from ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • 1865

    America Makes War and Peace in Lincoln’s Final Year

    by Michael B. Ballard, Richard Wightman Fox, John F. Marszalek, Edna Greene Medford, Richard Striner, Michael Vorenberg, Frank J. Williams, Edward Steers Jr., Ronald C. White Jr. ...
    In 1865 Americans faced some of the most important issues in the nation’s history: the final battles of the Civil War, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, the peace process, reconstruction, the role of freed slaves, the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the trials of the conspirators. In this illuminating collection, prominent historians of nineteenth-century America offer ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Wharf at Waterfall Bay

    by Lisa Harper ...
    The inspiring and entertaining story of a determined young woman alone, who overcame the isolation of her family farm to build a flourishing business. When Lisa Harper returned to her family’s farm at the head of remote Mahau Sound, in the Marlborough Sounds, after years overseas working as a scientist, she showed all the pluck and entrepreneurial streak of the earlier generations of women in her ... Read more

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  • Spoken from the Heart

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    In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary story.Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, Laura Welch grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies to miscarriage or infant death. She vividly evokes Midland's brash, rugged culture, her close relationship with her father, ... Read more

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  • Grace and Power

    The Private World of the Kennedy White House

    by Sally Bedell Smith ...
    In GRACE & POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates, including many who have never spoken before, and drawing on letters and personal papers made available for the first time, Smith paints a richly detailed ... Read more

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  • One Man Against the World

    The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

    by Tim Weiner ...
    The National Book Award–winning author of Legacy of Ashes delivers "a devastating account of Nixon's presidency . . . powerful [and] extraordinary" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Drawing on newly declassified documents, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait of a tortured yet brilliant man who led the country largely according to a deep-seated insecurity and distrust of not ... Read more

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  • Cold Antler Farm

    A Memoir of Growing Food and Celebrating Life on a Scrappy Six-Acre Homestead

    by Jenna Woginrich ...
    Jenna Woginrich is well loved for her essays on all that accompanies the life of a true homesteader: the mud and mess, the beautiful and tragic, the grime and passion. In Cold Antler Farm, she draws our attention to the timekeeper of such a lifestyle: the ancient agricultural year, filled with celebrations and seasonal touchstones that mark turning points in the cycles of life.Amidst these new-old ... Read more

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  • Washington's Circle

    The Creation of the President

    by David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler ...
    History enthusiasts and admirers of Team of Rivals will rejoice in this magisterial account of the extraordinary Americans who served the nation’s first chief executive: Together, they created the presidency for a country disgusted by crowns and the people who would wear them.In 1789, as George Washington became the first president of the United States, the world was all but certain that the ... Read more

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  • El estado mundial de la pesca y la acuicultura 2014

    by Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la A ...
    En un mundo en el que más de 800 millones de personas siguen padeciendo malnutrición crónica y en el que se espera que la población mundial aumente en otros 2 000 millones hasta llegar a los 9 600 millones de personas para el 2050 (con una concentración en las zonas urbanas costeras), tenemos que enfrentar el inmenso desafío que supone alimentar a nuestro planeta y proteger al mismo tiempo sus ... Read more

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  • Sharon

    The Life of a Leader

    by Gilad Sharon ...
    Drawn from extensive personal archives and filled withstartling revelations, the definitive biography of Ariel Sharon illuminates hislife and work from the penetrating perspective of his youngest son, Gilad Sharon—one of his father's closest confidants.Readers of George W. Bush's Decision Points, Tony Blair's A Journey,Yitzhak Rabin's The Rabin Memoirs, and Moshe Dayan's Story of My Life,as well ... Read more

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  • 1917

    Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder

    by Arthur Herman ...
    In this dual biography, New York Times bestselling author Arthur Herman brilliantly reveals how Lenin and Wilson rewrote the rules of modern geopolitics.In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson—champion of American democracy but also of segregation, advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and justice—thrust the United States into the First World War in order to make the "world safe for ... Read more

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  • Diamonds

    by Ian Smillie ...
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    Diamonds are a multi-billion dollar business involving some of the world’s largest mining companies, a million and a half artisanal diggers, more than a million cutters and polishers and a huge retail jewellery sector. But behind the sparkle of the diamond lies a murkier story, in which rebel armies in Angola, Sierra Leone and the Congo turned to diamonds to finance their wars. Completely ... Read more

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